TY  - GEN
T1  - Sin and evil : moral values in literature
A1  - Paulson, Ronald, 1930-2024
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn191747549
AB  - The confusion of sin and evil, or religious and moral transgression, is the subject of Ronald Paulson's latest book. He calls attention to the important distinction between sin and Evil that in our times is largely ignored, and to the further confusion caused by the term 'moral values'. Ranging widely through the history of Western literature, Paulson focuses particularly on American and English works of the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to discover how questions of evil and sin, and evil and sinful behaviour, have been discussed and represented. The breadth of Paulson's discussion is enormous, taking the reader from Greek and Roman tragedy, to Christian satire in the work of Swift and Hogarth, to Hawthorne's and Melville's novels, and finally to twentieth-century studies of good and evil by such authors as James, Conrad, Faulkner, Greene, Heller, Vonnegut, and O'Brien. Where does evil come from? What are 'moral values'? If evil is a cultural construct, what does that imply? Paulson's literary tour of sin and evil over the past two hundred years provides not only a historical perspective but also new ways of thinking about important issues that characterize our own era of violence, intolerance, and war.
OP  - 403
CN  - PR149.E87 P38 2007eb
SN  - 9780300135206
SN  - 0300135203
SN  - 9786611734978
SN  - 661173497X
SN  - 9780300120141
SN  - 0300120141
SN  - 1281734977
SN  - 9781281734976
KW  - Good and evil in literature.
KW  - English literature : History and criticism.
KW  - American literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Sin in literature.
KW  - Religion in literature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Péché dans la littérature.
KW  - Religion dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - American literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Good and evil in literature
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Sin in literature
KW  - Het Kwaad.
KW  - Zonde.
KW  - Engels.
KW  - Amerikaans.
KW  - Bellettrie.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -