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Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals) - Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present (Hardcover)
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Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals) - Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that
literature and art exploit various images to present culturally
prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology.
George Landow shows how the tumultuous history of the past two
hundred years has resulted in a plethora of metaphors associated
with moments of human crisis. Avalanches and volcanoes emerge as
focal images in an aesthetic that concerns itself increasingly with
the vulnerability of humanity. However, it is in the transformation
of traditional religious images that the ideas of the vacant
universe are most dramatically presented. Associated with this
central idea are ironic transformations of other images that
formerly had been associated with Christianity as paradigms of
belief: the journey of Odysseus, the rainbow of the Covenant and
Robinson Crusoe. Combining close textual analysis with a theory of
literary iconology, this fascinating reissue will be of particular
value to students with an interest in literary images, and literary
and cultural history.
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