Enigmatic bliss : the paradise motif in literature
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Enigmatic bliss : the paradise motif in literature
（Studies on themes and motifs in literature, vol. 25）
P. Lang, c1997
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Bibliography: p. [209]-215
Includes index
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What power has assured the continual fascination of writers with paradise? This book suggests that the answer lies in the complex, dynamic, and enigmatic roles offered by adopting paradise as a literary motif. Once it has shifted from myth to a flexible component of literary texts, it builds diverse significations and contexts into a recognizable literary construct and then plays these against each other in a fluid series of ambiguities and enigmas. This process encourages ever new contextualizations of paradise in response to changing cultural, technological, and social conditions.
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