Author: Pike, David L.
Title: Passage Through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1997). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xv,292 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light cover soil. VG. ¶ Contents: The Persistence of the Universal: Critical Descents into Antiquity; "La Bataille du Styx": Céline's Allegory of Conversion; The Conversion of Dante: Descent into Modernity: Peter Weiss's 'Welttheater'; Storming the Gates of Paradise: Dante's 'descensus ad superos'; The Gender of Descent: "O voi che siete in piccioletta barca": Christine de Pizan and the Topoi of Descent; "Romps of Fancy"? Virginia Woolf, Turf Battles & the Metaphorics of Descent; The Representation of Hell: Benjamin's Descent into the City of Light; The Descent into History: or Beyond a Modernism of Reading: Heaney & Walcott.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Modernism, Literature, Modernist, Theory, Critical, Hell, ,