Passage through hell : modernist descents, medieval underworlds /

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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 escap...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pike, David L. (David Lawrence), 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hell in literature.
Literature > History and criticism.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Enfer dans la littérature.
Littérature > Histoire et critique.
Civilisation médiévale dans la littérature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Hell in literature
Literature
Höllenfahrt > Motiv
Literatur
Letterkunde.
Hel.
Geschichte 1500-1990.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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"": Céline'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

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