03016oam 2200673I 450 991077932040332120230803020257.01-136-17857-01-136-17858-90-203-08230-31-299-15690-810.4324/9780203082300 (CKB)2550000001001311(OCoLC)828617779(CaPaEBR)ebrary10659507(SSID)ssj0000833030(MiAaPQ)EBC1125259(Au-PeEL)EBL1125259(CaPaEBR)ebr10659507(CaONFJC)MIL446940(OCoLC)828298572(FINmELB)ELB134225(EXLCZ)99255000000100131120180706d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe demonic literature and experience /Ewan Fernie ; foreword by Jonathan DollimoreLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (337 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-69025-0 0-415-69024-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Demonic negativity -- pt. 2. Turnabout and dialectic -- pt. 3. Possession.Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we’re not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselves? And where, in these cases, do we draw the line?Ewan Fernie argues that the demonic tradition in literature offers a key to our most agonised and intimate experiences. The Demonic ranges across the breadth of Western culture, engaging with writers as central and various as Luther, Shakespeare, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Melville and Mann.A powerful foreword by Jonathan Dollimore brings out its implications as an intellectual and stylistic breakthrough into new ways of writing criticism. Fernie unfolds an intense and personal vision, not just of Western modernity, but of identity, morality and sex. As much as it’s concerned with the great works, this is a book about life.Demonology in literatureDevil in literatureDemoniac possession in literatureSex in literatureDesire in literatureLiteratureHistory and criticismDemonology in literature.Devil in literature.Demoniac possession in literature.Sex in literature.Desire in literature.LiteratureHistory and criticism.809/.9337Fernie Ewan1971-,870239MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779320403321The demonic3797783UNINA