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SPACES FOR HAPPINESS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY G...

This book offers an in-depth study of the rich tapestry of happiness discourses in well-known
philosophical novels by Thomas Mann  Franz Kafka  Hermann Hesse and Ernst Jünger  published
between 1922 and 1949. The study is prompted  in part  by an awareness that despite the
interdisciplinarity of happiness research  Western literary scholarship has paid scant
attention to fictionalized constructs of happiness. Each of the four chapters uses extended
textual analysis to explore the sites in which happiness (Glück) and serenity (Heiterkeit) are
sought  experienced  narrated  reflected upon and enacted. The author theorizes  with
particular reference to Bachelard and Foucault  the interfaces between interior and exterior
spaces and states of well-being. In addition to providing new interpretive perspectives on the
canonical novels themselves  the book makes a significant contribution to a broader history of
the idea of happiness through the appraisal of key intellectual cross-currents and traditions 
both Western and Eastern  underpinning the novelists' varied and nuanced conceptualizations and
aesthetic representations of happiness.

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