TY - GEN T1 - Passage through hell : modernist descents, medieval underworlds T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE. A1 - Pike, David L. (David Lawrence), 1963- LA - English PP - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press YR - 1997 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1036764623 AB - 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. AB - 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. OP - 292 CN - PN56.H38 P55 1997 SN - 9781501729478 SN - 1501729470 SN - 0801431638 SN - 9780801431630 KW - Hell in literature. KW - Literature : History and criticism. KW - Civilization, Medieval, in literature. KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Enfer dans la littérature. KW - Littérature : Histoire et critique. KW - Civilisation médiévale dans la littérature. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary. KW - Civilization, Medieval, in literature KW - Hell in literature KW - Literature KW - Höllenfahrt : Motiv KW - Literatur KW - Letterkunde. KW - Hel. KW - Geschichte 1500-1990. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -