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Hell in contemporary literature : Western descent narratives since 1945 /
This book explores the idea that modern Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering.
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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland :
Edinburgh University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Falconer, Rachel. |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Hell in contemporary literature : |b Western descent narratives since 1945 / |c Rachel Falconer. |
| 260 | |a Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland : |b Edinburgh University Press, |c 2005. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index. | ||
| 504 | |a Filmography: pages 239-240. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction Descent and Return: the katabatic imagination; Chapter 1 -- Hell in Our Time; (i) Is Hell a fable?; (ii) Hell as the modern condition; (iii) Descent and dissent in modern philosophy; Chapter 2 -- Chronotopes of Hell; (i) Generic features of katabatic narrative; (ii) Bakhtin's Inferno: visionary versus historical chronotopes; (iii) Unspeakable wisdom; (iv) Conversion versus inversion; (v) Infernal inversion: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano; (vi) The absolute and 'my absolute': Sarah Kofman's Smothered Words; Chapter 3 -- Auschwitz as Hell; (i) Pathways through a life: The Search for Roots; (ii) Black Holes and the biblical Job; (iii) A constellation of chronotopes: If This is a Man; (a) Threshold crossing into Hell; (b) Auschwitz as education; (c) The visionary world; (d) On trial in Hell; (e) Sea-voyage and shipwreck; (iv) The intersection of pathways; Chapter 4 -- Surviving with Ghosts: Second Generation Holocaust Narratives; (i) Bog-boys and fire-children; (ii) Vertigo | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Sebald's Austerlitz; (iii) From depth to ascent: Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces; Chapter 5 -- Katabatic Memoirs of Mental Illness; (i) Down the rabbit hole; (ii) Parallel worlds and protest culture: Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted; (iii) The schizophrenic HyperReal: Carol North's Welcome, | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Silence, /i>; (iv) Falling into grace: Lauren Slater's Spasm: A Memoir with Lies; Chapter 6 -- Engendering Dissent in the Underworld; (i) Gender dynamics in the descent to Hell; (ii) Inside the hero's descent: Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills; (iii) Hell and utopia: Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time; (iv) Dante upside-down: Alice Notley's The Descent of Alette; Chapter 7 -- Postmodern Hell and the Search for Roots; (i) Karl Marx's katabasis; (ii) Postmodern capitalist Hell: Alasdair Gray's Lanark; (iii) Lanark's search for roots; (iv) Can realism lead fantasy out of Hell? Can fantasy help realism?; Chapter 8 -- East-West Descent Narratives; (i) Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Western descents to the East; (ii) Salman Rushdie's disoriented subjects; (iii) The migrations of Orpheus, | |
| 505 | 0 | |a In five acts: Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet; (a) Threshold crossing; (b) Ground Zero; (c) Looking back; (d) Dismemberment; (e) Return of another; Epilogue -- Katabasis in the Twenty-First Century; (i) September 11th: the first circle; (ii) Afghanistan and Iraq: there and back again (again); (iii) Global fear and its inversions; Appendix: Primo Levi, 'Map of reading'; Bibliography; Index. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Literature, Modern |y 20th century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Enfer dans la littérature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Littérature |y 20e siècle |x Histoire et critique. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Literature, Modern |2 fast | |
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