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Passage through Hell

Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds

Autor: David L. Pike
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Cornell University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Taking the culturally resonant motif of the descent to the underworld as his guiding thread. David L...

Informații despre carte

Autor
David L. Pike
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
1997
Pagini
320
EAN
9780801431630
ISBN
0801431638
Enbook ID
04706075
Editura
Cornell University Press
Greutate
548
Dimensiuni
154 x 234 x 24

Descriere completă

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 practices of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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.

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