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Passage through Hell : Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds /

Pike's readings of Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Walter Benjamin reveal the tensions at work in the modern appropriation of structures derived from ancient and medieval descents. His book shows how these structures were redefined in modernism and persist in contemporary critical practice. In order...

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Autor principal: Pike, David L. (David Lawrence), 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
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505 0 |a Cover; Passage through Hell; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS AND NOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS; 1 The Persistence of the Universal: Critical Descents into Antiquity; 2 ""La Bataille du Styx"": Celine's Allegory of Conversion; 3 The Conversion of Dante; Descent into Modernity: Peter Weiss's Welttheater; Storming the Gates of Paradise: Dante's descensus ad superos; 4 The Gender of Descent; O voi che siete in piccioletta barca"": Christine de Pizan and the Topoi of Descent; Romps of Fancy"": Virginia Woolf, Turf Battles, and the Metaphorics of Descent 
505 0 |a 5 The Representation of Hell: Benjamin's Descent into the City of Light6 The Descent into History, or Beyond a Modernism of Reading: Heaney and Walcott; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX 
520 8 |a Pike's readings of Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Walter Benjamin reveal the tensions at work in the modern appropriation of structures derived from ancient and medieval descents. His book shows how these structures were redefined in modernism and persist in contemporary critical practice. In order to recover the historical corpus of modernism, he asserts, it is necessary to acknowledge the attraction that medieval forms and motifs held for modernist literature and theory. By pairing the writings of the postwar German dramatist and novelist Peter Weiss with Dante's Commedia, and Christine de Pizan with Virginia Woolf, Pike argues for a new level of complexity in the relation between medieval and modern poetics. 
520 |a Taking the culturally resonant motif of the descent to the underworld as his guiding thread. David L. Pike traces the interplay between myth and history in medieval and modernist literature. Passage through Hell suggests new approaches to the practices of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. 
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