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Sin and Evil - Moral Values in Literature (Hardcover)
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Sin and Evil - Moral Values in Literature (Hardcover)
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A needed and timely book on sin and evil, and how they have been
discussed and represented in Western literature from antiquity to
the present day The confusion of sin and evil, or religious and
moral transgression, is the subject of Ronald Paulson's latest
book. He calls attention to the important distinction between sin
and Evil (with a capital E) that in our times is largely ignored,
and to the further confusion caused by the term "moral values."
Ranging widely through the history of Western literature, Paulson
focuses particularly on American and English works of the
eighteenth through twentieth centuries to discover how questions of
evil and sin-and evil and sinful behavior-have been discussed and
represented. The breadth of Paulson's discussion is enormous,
taking the reader from Greek and Roman tragedy, to Christian satire
in the work of Swift and Hogarth, to Hawthorne's and Melville's
novels, and finally to twentieth-century studies of good and evil
by such authors as James, Conrad, Faulkner, Greene, Heller,
Vonnegut, and O'Brien. Where does evil come from? What are "moral
values"? If evil is a cultural construct, what does that imply?
Paulson's literary tour of sin and evil over the past two hundred
years provides not only a historical perspective but also new ways
of thinking about important issues that characterize our own era of
violence, intolerance, and war.
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