Inlets of the soul : contemporary fiction in English and the myth of the fall
321 Seiten.
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Introduction (Beating the Devil). The Thief in the Night (The Archetype of the Fall in the Enuma Elish, Gilgamesh, and the Christian Bible). The Perilous Leap (William Golding's The Inheritors). Mysterium Coniunctionis (Patrick White's The Solid Mandala). Lethal Forms (Martin Amis's Other People). The Secular Postman (Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses). The Lapsarian Ascent (Wilson Harris's Companions of the Day and Night). Conclusion (The Healing Art).