| The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of Apocalyptic Narrative from Langland to Milton Contributor(s): Hendrix, Howard V. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820409049 ISBN-13: 9780820409047 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $80.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.009 |
| LCCN: 89013372 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 404 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The original meaning of apocalypse was -to uncover-, particularly through the ecstasy of dream and vision. This first meaning has long been obscured by a second and derived meaning, one which emphasizes global destruction occasioned by end-time catastrophe. "The Ecstasy of Catastrophe" untangles apocalypse back into its elements of ecstasy on the one hand and catastrophe on the other for ten important Medieval and Renaissance texts: "Piers" "Plowman, Pearl, " Malory's "Sankgreal" and "Morte, " Spenser's "Faerie Queene" Book I and two Cantos of Mutability, as well as Milton's increasingly post-apocalyptic "Paradise Lost, " "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes." In the process of uncovering again the original meaning of the word, this study provides important insights into the nature of time, faith, salvation, and eternity as described in these ten texts." |