Passage through Hell : : Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds / / David L. Pike.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 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
- 4. The Gender of Descent
- 5. The Representation of Hell: Benjamin's Descent into the City of Light
- 6. The Descent into History, or Beyond a Modernism of Reading: Heaney and Walcott
- Bibliography
- Index