Passage through Hell

by David L. Pike

Book Overview

Taking the culturally resonant motif of the descent to the underworld as his guiding thread, David L. Pike traces the interplay between myth and history in medieval and modernist literature. Passage through Hell suggests new approaches to the practice of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies.

Pike's readings of Louis Ferdinand C line and Walter Benjamin reveal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801431638
• ISBN13: 9780801431630
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher