The myth of the descent to the underworld in postmodern literature

著者

• Smith, Evans Lansing

書誌事項

The myth of the descent to the underworld in postmodern literature

Evans Lansing Smith

（Studies in comparative literature, v. 59）

Edwin Mellen Press, c2003

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-353) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This work provides a comprehensive study of the myth of the descent to the underworld in postmodern literature. It develops a theory of necrotypes - archetypal images consistently evoked by the myth of the nekyia - and applies it to close readings of selected works by major authors of the period.

目次

• A brief genealogy of the necrotypes - geometrical, birds, bees and animals, sacred vessels, forests, mountains and the night-sea journey, mirror mazes, eyes, doorways and divestiture
• Alejo Carpentier's "Lost Steps"
• Calvino's cartoons
• Octavio Paz - "Sunstone" and "The Monkey Grammarian"
• Christa Wolf's "Cassandra" and "Medea"
• A.S. Byatt's "Possession"
• Angela Carter's short fiction
• Robert Coover's "Briar Rose" and "Pinocchio"
• John Hawkes - "An Irish Eye"
• Thomas Pynchon's "Mason and Dixon"
• Sylvie Germain's "Book of Nights"
• "Sailor Song" - Kesey's comic apocalypse
• conclusion.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA75798068
• ISBN:
  • 0773467009
• LCCN: 2003048811
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lewiston, N.Y.
• ページ数/冊数: iii, 365 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PN56.O7
  • DC21 : 809.3/915
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Voyages to the otherworld in literature
  • LCSH : Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA13962898