1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798706403321

Autore

Rozelle Lee

Titolo

Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones [[electronic resource] ] : Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead" / / Lee Rozelle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8173-9023-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/936

Soggetti

Ecocriticism

Nature in literature

Liminality in literature

Ecofiction, American - History and criticism

Ecofiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A fruitful darkness: bioregional grotesques in Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Strange cartographies in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Don Delillo's Underworld -- Invisible lands: homecoming and nativity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and Derek Walcott's Omeros -- The future has not yet begun: apocalyptic bodies in Robert Kirkman's The walking dead and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy -- Coda.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793571403321

Autore

Lerner Ross

Titolo

Unknowing Fanaticism : Reformation Literatures of Self-Annihilation / / Ross Lerner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-8232-8633-9

0-8232-8388-7

0-8232-8389-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

Fordham scholarship online

Disciplina

809/.031

Soggetti

Renaissance

Reformation - Europe

Politics and literature

Fanaticism in literature

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction Receiving Divine Action: Fanaticism and Form in the Reformation -- 1. Allegorical Fanaticism: Spenser’s Organs -- 2. Lyric Fanaticism: Donne’s Annihilation -- 3. Readerly Fanaticism: Hobbes’s Outworks -- 4. Tragic Fanaticism: Milton’s Motions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term fanatic, from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable one. Then and now it has been reductively defined to justify state violence and to delegitimize alternative sources of authority. Unknowing Fanaticism rejects the simplified binary of fanatical religion and rational politics, turning to Renaissance literature to demonstrate that fanaticism was integral to how both modern politics and poetics developed, from the German Peasants’ Revolt to the English Civil War. The book traces two entangled approaches to fanaticism in this long Reformation moment:



the targeting of it as an extreme political threat and the engagement with it as a deep epistemological and poetic problem. In the first, thinkers of modernity from Martin Luther to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke positioned themselves against fanaticism to pathologize rebellion and abet theological and political control. In the second, which arose alongside and often in response to the first, the poets of fanaticism investigated the link between fanatical self-annihilation—the process by which one could become a vessel for divine violence—and the practices of writing poetry. Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and John Milton recognized in the fanatic’s claim to be a passive instrument of God their own incapacity to know and depict the origins of fanaticism. Yet this crisis of unknowing was a productive one. It led these writers to experiment with poetic techniques that would allow them to address fanaticism’s tendency to unsettle the boundaries between human and divine agency and between individual and collective bodies. These poets demand a new critical method, which this book attempts to model: a historically-minded and politicized formalism that can attend to the complexity of the poetic encounter with fanaticism.