After innocence : visions of the Fall in modern literature /

<P>The fear of falling, the awareness of lost innocence, lostillusions, lost hopes and intentions, of civilization indecline-these are the themes which link literature to theology,both concerned with the shape of human destiny. Otten discusses thecontinuing viability of the myth of the Fall in...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Otten, Terry (مؤلف)
مؤلف مشترك: University of Pittsburgh. University Library System. Digital Research Library
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press ©1982.
سلاسل:Critical essays in modern literature.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973226
جدول المحتويات:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Romantic Enlightenment: Blake's Bible of Hell
  • Byron's Cain
  • Coleridge's "Christabel" and Shelley's The Cenci
  • Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
  • 3. Childhood's End: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  • The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • 4. Civilization and its Discontents: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • Demian by Hermann Hesse
  • 5. The Fall and After: La Chute by Albert Camus
  • After the Fall by Arthur Miller
  • 6. The Fall in Fantasy: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
  • 2001: a Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
  • 7. Running the Risk: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
  • Deliverance by James Dickey
  • 8. Conclusion.