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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821288603321

Autore

Di Gennaro Paola

Titolo

Wandering through guilt : the Cain archetype in the twentieth-century novel / / Paola Di Gennaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-7991-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

809.304

Soggetti

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Psychological fiction - History and criticism

Cain complex in literature

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The first comprehensive study on the pattern of guilt and wandering in literature, this book examines the relationship between the two complex concepts as they appear in twentieth-century novels, positing its methodological premises on archetypal criticism and both close and distant reading, but also drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, and religion. This research deciphers a common paradigm and literary representation whose archetype within Western literature is found in the bibli...