Hell in contemporary literature : Western descent narratives since 1945 /: Western descent narratives since 1945. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rachel Falconer.
• Authors: Falconer, Rachel
• Contents: Introduction : Descent and return-- the katabanic imagination -- 1. Hell in our time. Is Hell a fable? ; Hell as the modern condition ; Descent and dissent in modern philosophy -- 2. Chronotopes of Hell. Generic features of katabatic narrative ; Bakhtin's Inferno : visionary versus historical chronotopes ; Unspeakable wisdom ; Conversion versus inversion ; Infernal inversion : Malcolm Lowrey's Under the volcano ; The absolute and 'my absolute' : Sarah Kofman's Smothered words -- 3. Auschwitz as Hell. Pathways through a life : The search for roots ; Black holes and the biblical Job ; A constellation of chronotopes : If this is a man ; Threshold crossing into Hell ; Auschwitz as education ; The visionary world ; On trial in Hell ; Sea-voyage and shipwreck ; The intersection of pathways -- 4. Surviving with ghosts : second generation Holocaust narratives. Bog-boys and fire children ; Vertigo and luminosity : W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz ; From depth to ascent : Anne Michaels' Fugitive pieces -- 5. Katabatic memoirs of mental illness. Down the rabbit hole ; Parallel worlds and protest culture : Susanna Kaysen's Girl, interrupted ; The schizophrenic hyperreal : Carol North's Welcome, silence -- Falling into grace : Lauren Slater's Spasm : a memoir with lies -- 6. Engendering dissent in the underworld. Gender dynamics in the descent to Hell ; Inside the hero's descent : Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills -- Hell and utopia : Marge Piercy's Woman on the edge of time -- Dante upside-down: Alice Notley's The descent of Alette -- 7. Postmodern Hell and the search for roots. Karl Marx's katabasis ; Postmodern capitalist Hell : Alasdair Gray's Lanark -- Lanark's search for roots ; Can realism lead to fantasy out of Hell? Can fantasy help realism? -- 8. East-West descent narratives. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse now and Western descents to the East ; Salman Rushdie's disoriented subjects ; The migrations of Orpheus in five acts : Rushdie's The ground beneath her feet : Threshold crossing ; Ground zero ; Looking back ; Dismemberment ; Return of another -- Epilogue : Katabasis in the twenty-first century, September 11th : the first circle ; Afghanistan and Iraq : there and back again (again) ; Global fear and its inversions -- Appendix : Primo Levi, 'Map of reading'.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
• Subjects: 809.39382023; Hell in literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Littérature -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique; Enfer dans la littérature; Maladies mentales dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; Hell in literature; Literature, Modern; Literatur; Hölle; Languages & Literatures; Literature - General; Letterkunde; Filmkunst; Hel; Zelf; Religieuze aspecten; Ethiek; Westliche Welt; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474468138; 1474468136
• Related ISBNs: 0748617639; 9780748617630; 0748634436; 9780748634439
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.; Note: Filmography: pages 239-240.
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