Hell in Contemporary Literature : : Western Descent Narratives since 1945 / / Rachel Falconer.
What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual, personal or historical experience?Now available in paperback, this book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of en...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Descent and Return - the katabatic imagination
- Chapter 1 Hell in our time
- Chapter 2 Chronotopes of hell
- Chapter 3 Auschwitz as hell
- Chapter 4 Surviving with ghosts: second-generation holocaust narratives
- Chapter 5 Katabatic memoirs of mental Illnes
- Chapter 6 Engendering dissent in the underworld
- Chapter 7 Postmodern hell and the search for roots
- Chapter 8 East-west descent narratives
- Epilogue: Katabasis in the twenty-first century
- Apendix: Primo Levi, 'Map of reading'
- Bibliography
- Index