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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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
©1982.
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| Series: | Critical essays in modern literature.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions. University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973226 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.