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A history of the lie of innocence in literature : sons who become orphans /
This book traces the history of what it terms the "lie of innocence" as represented in literary texts from the late 18th century to contemporary times. The writers selected here - William Blake, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and Cormac McCarthy - write at various points...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | This book traces the history of what it terms the "lie of innocence" as represented in literary texts from the late 18th century to contemporary times. The writers selected here - William Blake, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and Cormac McCarthy - write at various points in which the western world was undergoing a process of secularization. This work commences with a study of the bible demonstrating the extent to which "innocence" is realized there as a lie. It identifies in the bible how "innocence" is used for political, social and ethical expediency, and suggests that the |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781443891691 144389169X |