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

Publication | Library Call Number: PN56.H38 F35 2007

Physical Description: x, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Hell in our time
Chronotopes of hell
Auschwitz as hell
Surviving with ghosts : second-generation Holocaust narratives
Katabatic memoirs of mental illness
Engendering dissent in the underworld
Postmodern hell and the search for roots
East-West descent narratives.
ISBN: 9780748634439
0748634436 (pbk.)
Notes: Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-252) and index.

Hell in our time -- Chronotopes of hell -- Auschwitz as hell -- Surviving with ghosts : second-generation Holocaust narratives -- Katabatic memoirs of mental illness -- Engendering dissent in the underworld -- Postmodern hell and the search for roots -- East-West descent narratives.
Subjects: Hell in literature.
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
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