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  1. Hell in contemporary literature
    Western descent narratives since 1945
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0748617639; 9780748617630
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Hell in literature; Hölle <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: X, 262 S.
  2. Hell in contemporary literature
    Western descent narratives since 1945
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0748617639; 9780748617630
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Hell in literature
    Scope: X, 262 S.
  3. Hell in contemporary literature
    Western descent narratives since 1945
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Edinburgh Univ. Press, Edinburgh

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0748617639; 9780748617630
    Edition: Digital print.
    Subjects: Westliche Welt; Literatur; Hölle <Motiv>; Geschichte 1945-2003
    Scope: X, 262 S.
  4. Hell in contemporary literature
    Western descent narratives since 1945
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Edinburgh Univ. Press, Edinburgh

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0748617639; 9780748617630
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    Subjects: Literatur; Hölle <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 262 S.
  5. Hell in contemporary literature
    Western descent narratives since 1945
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780748634439; 0748634436; 9780748617630
    RVK Categories: EC 5197 ; HG 432
    Subjects: Hell in literature; Literature, Modern
    Scope: X, 262 S., graph. Darst.
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    Literaturverz. S. [233] - 252

  6. Hell in contemporary literature
    Western descent narratives since 1945
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual, personal or historical experience? This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or... more

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    What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual, personal or historical experience? 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 endless or unjust suffering 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'

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0748617639; 0748634444; 074865173X; 9780748617630; 9780748634446; 9780748651733
    Subjects: Hell in literature; Literature, Modern; Mental illness in literature; Littérature - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique; Enfer dans la littérature; Maladies mentales dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM - General; Mental illness in literature; Hell in literature; Literature, Modern; Letterkunde; Filmkunst; Hel; Zelf; Religieuze aspecten; Ethiek; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 262 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index -- Filmography: pages 239-240

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