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UNINA9910466829303321 |
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Pike David L (David Lawrence), <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Passage through hell : modernist descents, medieval underworlds / / David L. Pike |
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Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 1997 |
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1 online resource (xiii, 292 pages) : illustrations |
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Hell in literature |
Literature - History and criticism |
Civilization, Medieval, in literature |
Modernism (Literature) |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface / Pike, David L. -- 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 |
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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 from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis Ferdinand Céline 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 |
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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. Pike's supple and persuasive reading of the Commedia resituates that text within the contradictions of medieval tradition. He contends that the Dantean allegory of conversion, altered to suit the exigencies of modernism, maintains its hold over current literature and theory. The postwar writers Pike treats-Weiss, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott-exemplify alternate strategies for negotiating the legacy of modernism. The passage through hell emerges as a way of disentangling images of the past from their interpretation in the present. |
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UNINA9910792449203321 |
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Liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean [[electronic resource] ] : late 19th century until the 1960s / / edited by Christoph Schumann |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008 |
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1-282-60242-X |
9786612602429 |
90-474-4224-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Collana |
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Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, , 1385-3376 ; ; v. 104 |
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Liberalism - Arab countries |
Arab nationalism |
Civilization, Arab - Western influences |
Mandates - Arab countries |
Secularism - Turkey |
Arab countries Intellectual life |
Arab countries Politics and government |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction / Christoph Schumann -- Part one : the impact of the west : mission, mandate, and education -- Part two : constitutionalism, revolution, and liberal thought -- Part three : liberal thought and its ambivalences. |
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This volume analyzes liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean since the late nineteenth century, highlighting its long-term and ongoing influence, and challenging the conventional wisdom that liberalism has no legitimate place in the region’s intellectual discourse. By investigating the activities of diverse institutions, media, and personalities, the authors in this volume examine the liberal ideas and values that emerged during eras of both peace and political turmoil, while recognizing the factors contributing to their decline. Seen from these many perspectives, liberal thought developed not merely from “Westernization,” but from the interaction between indigenous intellectual critique and political ideology, political experiences and literary imagination, and a mixture of admiration for and resistance to European ideas and political domination. |
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