Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945 by Falconer, Rachel
Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945 by Falconer, Rachel

Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945

What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual,...
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Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945 by Falconer, Rachel

Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945

$705.59
Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945 by Falconer, Rachel

Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945

$705.59
Author: Rachel Falconer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual, personal or historical experience?Now available in paperback, this book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering. In the contemporary period, the descent to Hell has come to represent the means of recovering - or discovering - selfhood. In exploring these ideas, this book discusses descent journeys in Holocaust testimony and fiction, memoirs of mental illness, and feminist, postmodern and postcolonial narratives written after 1945. A wide range of texts are discussed, including writing by Primo Levi, W.G. Sebald, Anne Michaels, Alasdair Gray, and Salman Rushdie, and films such as Coppola's Apocalypse Now and the Matrix trilogy. Drawing on theoretical writing by Bakhtin, Levinas, Derrida, Judith Butler, David Harvey and Paul Ricoeur, the book addresses such broader theoretical
issues as: narration and


Author: Rachel Falconer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 09/25/2007
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780748634439

About the Author

Rachel Falconer is Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne. Her publications include A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature, edited with Madeleine Scherer, and Hell in Contemporary Literature: Descent Narratives since 1945.


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