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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 practices of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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 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.
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- Title Passage through Hell
- Author David L. Pike
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A
- Date 1997-01-16
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780801431630 / 0801431638
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.17 x 6.18 x 1.01 in (23.29 x 15.70 x 2.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1430
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Literature - History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-18284
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.933
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