The literature of hell
著者
書誌事項
The literature of hell
(Essays and studies / series editor Ceri Sullivan, 2021 ; new ser. v. 74)
D.S. Brewer, 2021
大学図書館所蔵 全5件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.
Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from doctrinal warnings and the deep-set literary markers that identify a place of suffering and alienation continue to stimulate creative exchange and critical thinking. Such work takes risks: it braves the dark and questions the past.
The contributions in this volume reflect on the exigency of hell in the stories that we tell. They consider the transfer and repurposing of motifs across genres and generational divides, and acknowledge the sustained immediacy of physical and psychological landscapes of hell. The essays span a wide chronological range and apply various contemporary critical approaches, including cognitive science, performance studies and narratology. This cross-period analysis is complemented by interviews with three creative practitioners: Jeya Ayadurai, director of "Hell's Museum" in Singapore, the actor Lisa Dwan, who is acclaimed for her dramatisation of Samuel Beckett's late works, and the writer David Almond. From ancient myth and early English sermons to mid-twentieth-century surrealism and current responses to terrorist activities and environmental damage, the literature of hell engages with issues of immediate relevance and asks its audiences to reflect on their cultural history, the meaning of social justice and the nature of embodied existence.
目次
Introduction,
Margaret Kean
PART I: Cum Timor et Tremore: Landscapes for Hell
Folk Horror: Hell and the Land in Old English Homilies for Rogationtide,
Helen Appleton
Pandaemonium as Parallax: Metropolitan Underworlds and Anarchist Clubs in Nineteenth-Century London and its Literature,
Charlotte Jones
Hell's Museum, Singapore,
Interview: Jeya Ayadurai
PART II: Out into this World: Sensory Hells
The Taste of Food in Hell: Cognition and the Buried Myth of Tantalus in Early Modern English Texts,
Laura Seymour
Hell's Kitchen: Underworlds in Leonora Carrington's Down Below and The Hearing Trumpet,
Hannah Silverblank
Samuel Beckett's Not I,
Interview: Lisa Dwan
PART III: Mind the Gap: Telling the Tale
Terra tremens: Katabasis in Seamus Heaney's District and Circle (2006),
Rachel Falconer
Whirlpools, Black Holes and Vortical Hells in Literature,
Jonathan R. Olson
The Song of Orpheus,
Interview: David Almond
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