Autore	Himmelfarb Martha <1952->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (184 p.)
Disciplina	229/.913
Soggetto topico	Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism Voyages to the otherworld in literature Heaven Angels in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-52676-9 0-19-535965-8 1-4294-0120-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. From Ezekiel to the Book of the Watchers; 2. Heavenly Ascent and Priestly Investiture; 3. Transformation and the Righteous Dead; 4. The Secrets of Nature, Primeval History, and the Order of the Cosmos; 5. The Apocalypses as Writing; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458361803321

Autore	Greenblatt Stephen <1943->
Edizione	[First Princeton classics edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (347 p.)
Disciplina	822.33
Collana	Princeton classics
Soggetto topico	Purgatory in literature Christianity and literature - England - History - 17th century Christianity and literature - England - History - 16th century English drama (Tragedy) - Christian influences Voyages to the otherworld in literature Religion in literature Ghosts in literature Tragedy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4008-4809-1
Classificazione	HI 3423
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER ONE. A Poet's Fable -- CHAPTER TWO. Imagining Purgatory -- CHAPTER THREE. The Rights of Memory -- CHAPTER FOUR. Staging Ghosts -- CHAPTER FIVE. Remember Me -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463164003321

Autore	Zaleski Carol
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (286 pages)
Disciplina	133.9013
Soggetto topico	Near-death experiences Near-death experiences - Religious aspects - Christianity Near-death experiences - Christianity - Religious aspects - Middle Ages, 600-1500 Near-death experiences - History of doctrines - Christianity - Religious aspects Voyages to the otherworld Voyages to the otherworld in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-52362-X 0-19-802098-8 0-19-536352-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ORIENTATION; CHAPTER 1 A Wide-Angle View; CHAPTER 2 Four Models of Christian Otherworld Journey Narration; The Otherworld Journey as Apocalypse: The Vision of St. Paul; The Otherworld Journey as Miracle Story: The Dialogues of Gregory the Great; The Otherworld Journey as Conversion: The Vision of Drythelm; The Otherworld Journey as Pilgrimage: St. Patrick's Purgatory; PART II: MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN RETURN-FROM-DEATH STORIES: A THEMATIC TREATMENT; CHAPTER 3 The Other World: Medieval Itineraries; Exit from the Body; The Guide; The Journey; CHAPTER 4 Obstacles; Fire The Test-Bridge Encounter with Deeds; CHAPTER 5 Reentry; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary as Messenger; The Narrator as Messenger; Vision and Revision; Interpretation of Visions; PART III: THE MODERN NEAR-DEATH NARRATIVE: A THEMATIC AND COMPARATIVE TREATMENT; CHAPTER 6 From Deathbed Visions to Life After Life; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Precursors; Life After Life: A New Phase; The Researchers; CHAPTER 7 The Other World: Modern Itineraries; Attitudes toward Death and Dying; Images of the Soul; Liminality; The Journey; The Light; Judgment ""Falling into Heaven"": Mystical States and Visions of the Whole Otherworld Topography; Otherworld Demography; CHAPTER 8 Back to Life; Approaching the Point of No Return; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary and the Interviewer; PART IV: THE INTERPRETATION OF NEAR-DEATH VISIONS; CHAPTER 9 Ecstatics and Statistics; Credentials; Verification; CHAPTER 10 Explanations and Counter explanations; Were They Dead?; Models of Death; ""Natural"" Causes; Counterarguments; CHAPTER 11 Evaluating Near-Death Testimony; Experiential Claims; Double Vision; Corporeal Imagery; The Question of Interpretation Another World to Live In Orientation; APPENDIX: Chronology of Medieval Visions; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450882403321

Autore	Gunnel Ekroth; Ingela Nilsson (Volume Editors)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages)
Disciplina	133.9093
Collana	Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean
Soggetto topico	Voyages to the otherworld Voyages to the otherworld in literature
ISBN	90-04-37596-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Round Trip to Hades: An Introductory Tour / Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson -- Travels to the Beyond: A Guide / Fritz Graf -- Hades, Homer and the Hittites: The Cultic- Cultural Context of Odysseus' "Round Trip" to the Underworld / Gunnel Ekroth -- Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod's Theogony / Ivana Petrovic and Andrei Petrovic -- Introducing Oneself in Hades: Two "Orphic" Formulas Reconsidered / Scott Scullion -- Pathein and Mathein in the Descents to Hades / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui -- From Alkestis to Archidike: Thessalian Attitudes to Death and the Afterlife / Sofia Kravaritou and Maria Stamatopoulou -- Round Trip to Hades: Herakles' Advice and Directions / Annie Verbanck-Piérard -- Hades in Hellenistic Philosophy (the Early Academy and Stoicism) / Adrian Mihai -- Following the Dead to the Underworld: An Archaeological Approach to Graeco-Roman Death Oracles / Wiebke Friese -- The Sounds of Katabasis: Bellowing, Roaring, and Hissing at the Crossing of Impervious Boundaries / Pierre Bonnechere -- Down There and Back Again: Variations on the Katabasis Theme in Lucian / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath -- From Hades to Hell: Christian Visions of the Underworld (2nd-5th centuries CE) / Zissis. D. Ainalis -- The Virgin in Hades / Thomas Arentzen -- Why Did Hades Become Beautiful in Byzantine Art? / Henry Maguire -- Hades Meets Lazarus: The Literary Katabasis in Twelfth-Century Byzantium / Ingela Nilsson - "Heaven for Climate, Hell for Company": Byzantine Satirical Katabaseis / Przemyslaw Marciniak -- Many (Un)Happy Returns: Ancient Greek Concepts of a Return from Death and Their Later Counterparts / Sarah Iles Johnston -- Epilogue: Below the Tree of Life / Eric Cullhed and Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910793010903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (vi, 302 pages)
Disciplina	873/.01
Collana	Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Soggetto topico	Voyages to the otherworld in literature Aeneid Augustine Christian Ovid Pagan Romantic Rome Seneca Shelley Statius Vergil Virgil classical literature death literary reception poetry spirituality tradition underworld LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Soggetto non controllato	Aeneid Augustine Christian Ovid Pagan Romantic Rome Seneca Shelley Statius Vergil Virgil classical literature death literary reception poetry spirituality tradition underworld
ISBN	1-4875-3265-2 1-4875-3264-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction / Bill Gladhill and Micah Young Myers -- Into the Woods (Via Cuma 320, Bacoli) / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Walk in Vergil's Footsteps: Statius on the Via Domitiana / Emily Pillinger -- In the Sibyl's Cave: Vergilian Prophecy and Mary Shelley's Last Man / Maggie Kilgour -- Exploring the Forests of Antiquity: The Golden Bough and Early Modern Spirituality / Matteo Soranzo -- Aeneas' Steps / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui -- Vergil's Underworld and the Afterlife of Lovers and Love Poets / Micah Young Myers -- Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid / Alison Keith -- Mortem aliquid ultra est: Vergil's Underworld in Senecan Tragedy / Bill Gladhill -- Servius on Sinners and Punishments in Vergil's Underworld / Fabio Stok --10. Paradise and Performance in Vergil's Underworld and Horace's Carmen Saeculare / Lauren Curtis -- Why Isn't Homer in Vergil's Underworld? And Other Notable Absences / Emily Gowers -- Silence of Aeneid 6 in Augustine's Confessions / Jacob L. Mackey -- Spiritualism as Textual Practice / Grant Parker.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910794171503321