Passage through Hell

Passage through Hell
Author :
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 312
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501729478
ISBN-13 : 1501729470
Rating : 4/5 (470 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Passage through Hell by : David L. Pike

Download or read book Passage through Hell written by David L. Pike and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 practice of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis Ferdinand Céline 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. Pike's supple and persuasive reading of the Commedia resituates that text within the contradictions of medieval tradition. He contends that the Dantean allegory of conversion, altered to suit the exigencies of modernism, maintains its hold over current literature and theory. The postwar writers Pike treats—Weiss, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott—exemplify alternate strategies for negotiating the legacy of modernism. The passage through hell emerges as a way of disentangling images of the past from their interpretation in the present.


Passage through Hell Related Books

Passage through Hell
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: David L. Pike
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-05 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

GET EBOOK

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 medi
Passage Through Hell
Language: en
Pages: 123
Authors: Armēn Anoysh
Categories: Armenian massacres survivors
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Erasing Hell
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Francis Chan
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: David C Cook

GET EBOOK

Addressing a variety of views on hell, the Bible, and the character of God, offers an eloquent response to the recent media storm surrounding questions of etern
Rethinking Hell
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Christopher Date
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-15 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

GET EBOOK

Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teach
23 Minutes in Hell
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Bill Wiese
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-02 - Publisher: Charisma Media

GET EBOOK

New York Times Best Seller and Over 1 million copies sold! Over 750 5-Star reviews Wiese’s visit to the devil’s lair lasted just twenty-three minutes, but h