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Hell in contemporary literature: Western descent narrative since 1945 / Rachel Falconer

By: Falconer, RachelMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2007Description: 262 pISBN: 9780748634439DDC classification: 809.93382

Contents:

Introduction: Descent and Return - the katabatic imagination 1 Hell in Our Time Is Hell a fable? Hell as the modern condition Descent and dissent in modern philosophy 2 Chronotopes of Hell Generic features of katabatic narrative Bakhtin’s Inferno-, visionary versus historical chronotopes Unspeakable wisdom Conversion versus inversion Infernal inversion: Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano The absolute and ’my absolute’: Sarah Kofman’s Smothered Words 3 Auschwitz as Hell Pathways through a life: The Search for Roots Black holes and the biblical Job A constellation of chronotopes: If This Is a Man Threshold crossing into Hell Auschwitz as education The visionary world On trial in Hell Sea-voyage and shipwreck The intersection of pathways 4 Surviving with Ghosts: Second-generation Holocaust Narratives Bog-boys and fire-children Vertigo and luminosity: W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz From depth to ascent: Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces 5 Katabatic Memoirs of Mental Illness Down the rabbit hole Parallel worlds and protest culture: Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted The schizophrenic HyperReal: Carol North’s Welcome, Silence Falling into grace: Lauren Slater’s Spasm: A Memoir with Lies 6 Engendering Dissent in the Underworld Gender dynamics in the descent to Hell Inside the hero’s descent: Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills Hell and Utopia: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time Dante upside-down: Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette 7 Postmodern Hell and the Search for Roots Karl Marx’s katabasis Postmodern Capitalist Hell: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark Lanark’s search for roots Can realism lead fantasy out of Hell? Can fantasy help realism? 8 East-West Descent Narratives Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Western descents to the East Salman Rushdie’s disoriented subjects The migrations of Orpheus in five acts: Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet Threshold crossing Ground Zero Looking back Dismemberment Return of another Epilogue: Katabasis in the Twenty-First Century September 11th: the first circle Afghanistan and Iraq: there and back again (again) Global fear and its inversions

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Includes bibliography and index.

Introduction: Descent and Return - the katabatic imagination
1 Hell in Our Time
Is Hell a fable?
Hell as the modern condition
Descent and dissent in modern philosophy
2 Chronotopes of Hell
Generic features of katabatic narrative
Bakhtin’s Inferno-, visionary versus historical chronotopes
Unspeakable wisdom
Conversion versus inversion
Infernal inversion: Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano
The absolute and ’my absolute’: Sarah Kofman’s Smothered Words
3 Auschwitz as Hell
Pathways through a life: The Search for Roots
Black holes and the biblical Job
A constellation of chronotopes: If This Is a Man
Threshold crossing into Hell
Auschwitz as education
The visionary world
On trial in Hell
Sea-voyage and shipwreck
The intersection of pathways
4 Surviving with Ghosts: Second-generation Holocaust Narratives
Bog-boys and fire-children
Vertigo and luminosity: W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
From depth to ascent: Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces
5 Katabatic Memoirs of Mental Illness
Down the rabbit hole
Parallel worlds and protest culture: Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted
The schizophrenic HyperReal: Carol North’s Welcome, Silence Falling into grace: Lauren Slater’s Spasm: A Memoir with Lies
6 Engendering Dissent in the Underworld
Gender dynamics in the descent to Hell
Inside the hero’s descent: Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills
Hell and Utopia: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
Dante upside-down: Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette
7 Postmodern Hell and the Search for Roots Karl Marx’s katabasis
Postmodern Capitalist Hell: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark
Lanark’s search for roots
Can realism lead fantasy out of Hell?
Can fantasy help realism?
8 East-West Descent Narratives
Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Western descents to the East
Salman Rushdie’s disoriented subjects
The migrations of Orpheus in five acts:
Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Threshold crossing
Ground Zero
Looking back
Dismemberment Return of another
Epilogue: Katabasis in the Twenty-First Century September 11th: the first circle Afghanistan and Iraq: there and back again (again)
Global fear and its inversions

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