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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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