The Ecstasy of Catastrophe
A Study of Apocalyptic Narrative from Langland to Milton
(Sprache: Englisch)
The original meaning of apocalypse was "to uncover", particularly through the ecstasy of dream and vision. This first meaning has long been obscured by a second and derived meaning, one which emphasizes global destruction occasioned by end-time catastrophe....
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The original meaning of apocalypse was "to uncover", particularly through the ecstasy of dream and vision. This first meaning has long been obscured by a second and derived meaning, one which emphasizes global destruction occasioned by end-time catastrophe. The Ecstasy of Catastrophe untangles apocalypse back into its elements of ecstasy on the one hand and catastrophe on the other for ten important Medieval and Renaissance texts: Piers Plowman, Pearl, Malory's Sankgreal and Morte, Spenser's Faerie Queene Book I and two Cantos of Mutability, as well as Milton's increasingly post-apocalyptic Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. In the process of uncovering again the original meaning of the word, this study provides important insights into the nature of time, faith, salvation, and eternity as described in these ten texts.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Howard V. Hendrix
- 1990, Neuausg., 404 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 22,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- ISBN-10: 0820409049
- ISBN-13: 9780820409047
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.1990
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Howard Hendrix's 'The Ecstasy of Catastrophe' is one of the three or four serious attempts over the past quarter-century at confronting a theme that has always haunted Western culture. Hendrix proves that the fantasies of destruction and re-creation, of society as well as of the self, that most of us ascribe to Romanticism, in fact have much earlier and indelible roots. With his eloquent readings of some key works in the English narrative tradition, and with his provocative definition of apocalyptic literature, Hendrix maps a dizzying route that captures the spirit of his subject." (John M. Ganim, University of California, Riverside)"Hendrix has much to offer that is innovative; he takes an interesting selection of works and derives a series of contrasts among their portraits of apocalyptic experience. He does so in an illuminating fashion..." (Daniel T. Lochman, The Sixteenth Century Journal)
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