What power has assured the continual fascination of writers with paradise? This book suggests that the answer lies in the complex, dynamic, and enigmatic roles offered by adopting paradise as a literary motif. Once it has shifted from myth to a flexible component of literary texts, it builds diverse significations and contexts into a recognizable literary construct and then plays these against each other in a fluid series of ambiguities and enigmas. This process encourages ever new contextualizations of paradise in response to changing cultural, technological, and social conditions.
| ISBN: | 9780820430027 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 1997 |
| Author: | Ingrid Daemmrich |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |