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Passage through Hell - Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (Hardcover, New)
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Passage through Hell - Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (Hardcover, New)
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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
practice of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the
current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. 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. Pike's supple and persuasive reading of the Commedia
resituates that text within the contradictions of medieval
tradition. He contends that the Dantean allegory of conversion,
altered to suit the exigencies of modernism, maintains its hold
over current literature and theory. The postwar writers Pike
treats-Weiss, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott-exemplify alternate
strategies for negotiating the legacy of modernism. The passage
through hell emerges as a way of disentangling images of the past
from their interpretation in the present.
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