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...
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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 practice...
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Minor rubbing. Some light cover soil. VG. 23x15cm, xv, 292 pp. Contents: The Persistence of the Universal: Critical Descents into Antiquity; "La Bataille du Styx": Céline's Allegory of Conversion; The Conversion of Dante: Descent into Modernity: Peter Weiss's 'Welttheater'; Storming the Gates of Paradise: Dante's 'descensus ad superos'; 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 & the Metaphorics of Descent; The Representation of Hell: Benjamin's Descent into the City of Light; The Descent into History: or Beyond a Modernism of Reading: Heaney & Walcott.
