Error and Angels

by Maureen Bloomfield

Book Overview

To err is to wander, and the speaker of Maureen Bloomfield's Error and Angels wakes to find that she has strayed, like Dante's traveler, from the path whose end is light. Voices from her Catholic school days, figures from the Judaeo-Christian mythos, and fragments from the history of art inform her ironic, iconic quest. Invoking Iphigenia, Sarah, Mary, Magdalen, Giuliana, and others, she questions the confluences, in women's lives, between renunciation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570031940
• ISBN13: 9781570031946
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 59 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

mistake

The Editorial Reviews Card catalog description makes a painful confusion between mythos and religion.