Enigmatic Bliss: The Paradise Motif in LiteratureP. Lang, 1997 - 240 pages What power has assured the continual fascination of writers with paradise? This book suggests that the answer lies in the complex, dynamic, and enigmatic roles offered by adopting paradise as a literary motif. Once it has shifted from myth to a flexible component of literary texts, it builds diverse significations and contexts into a recognizable literary construct and then plays these against each other in a fluid series of ambiguities and enigmas. This process encourages ever new contextualizations of paradise in response to changing cultural, technological, and social conditions. |
Contents
From Subject to Function | 23 |
The Enigmatic Landscape of the Literary Paradise | 47 |
Networking of the Paradise Motif with the Themes | 107 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Adam alignment Arcadia artificial paradises Atala beauty becomes blue complex components contrast conventional create Daemmrich Dante's Daphnis and Chloe depicts designed dise divine dream earth earthly paradise Eclogue Edenic enigmatic example exotic experience Faerie Queene fictional flora flowers Fountains of Paradise Fous de Bassan freedom fruit functions Garden of Eden Garden of Rama Gatholonabes Gilgamesh gold Golden Age goldne Topf harmony heaven human idyllic innocence island kinesis knowledge land Le Grand Meaulnes literary paradise literature of paradise located locus amoenus lovers male Mandeville's Mandeville's Travels Meaulnes mountain myth mythopoetic narrator nymphs Paradise Lost paradise motif paradisiacal bliss paradisiacal garden paradisiacal landscape paradisiacal setting paradisiacal space paradoxical pastoral landscape patriarchal perfect Pilgrim Pilgrim's Progress play poem poet poetry protagonists quest questers readers reality realm reflect relationship rivers role serenity shepherds signify simulated Spenser's stasis texts theme and motif Theocritus tion traditional transform trees Virgil's vision walls
References to this book
Le paradis interdit au Moyen Age: la quête manquée de l'Eden oriental, Volume 1 Corin Braga No preview available - 2004 |
The Virgin Mary as Alchemical and Lullian Reference in Donne Roberta Albrecht No preview available - 2005 |