Passage Through Hell
Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2018
320 pages
978-1-5017-2947-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-2947-8 (9781501729478)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/1997
Cornell University Press
€101.68
Shipment within 10-20 days
Person
David L. Pike is Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 and Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities), both from Cornell.
Content
- Cover
- Passage through Hell
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS AND NOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
- 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
- Descent into Modernity: Peter Weiss's Welttheater
- Storming the Gates of Paradise: Dante's descensus ad superos
- 4 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, and the Metaphorics 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
