Russ, Daniel
The Hermeneutics of Hell
1. Introduction: The Devil We Know and the Devils We Don’t Know
Daniel Russ, Gregor Thuswaldner
2. “Two Brass Mites of the Widow”: Saint Bridget of Sweden and the Terrors of Hell
Mark Edwin Peterson
3. The Uses of
Carl P. E. Springer
4. As an Angel of Light: Satanic Rhetoric in Early Modern Literature and Theology
David Parry
5. Astrophal Redivivus: The Coinage of the Discourse on the Devil in the Early Modern Age in Georg Bernardt S.J.’s
David Johannes Olszynski
6. The Drama of Hell: Sources and Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century Operatic Infernal Scenes
Aliyah M. Shanti
7. The Diabolic Logic of
Caroline Sauter
8. Literature, Theology, Survival
S. Jonathon O’Donnell
9. Dostoevsky’s Demons
Irina Kuznetsova
10. Money as the Devil in B. Traven’s “Assembly Line,” and Its Sources in Scripture, the Faust Legend, and New England Puritanism
Anthony R. Grasso C.S.C.
11. “la manière de Milton”: Baudelaire Reads Milton’s Satan
Matthew J. Smith
12. Visions of Hell in Flannery O’Connor
George Piggford C.S.C
13. “He Haunts One for Hours Afterwards”: Demonic Dissonance in Milton’s Satan and Lovecraft’s Nyarlathotep
Marcello Ricciardi
14. “The One Who Knocks”: Milton’s Lucifer and the American Tragic Character
Edward Simon
15. Reading the Devil in the Landscape
Deborah C. Bowen
16. A Landscape of the Damned: Evil and Nothingness in Cormac McCarthy’s
Matthew Potts
Keywords: Literature, Literary History, Comparative Literature, Medieval Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literature and Technology/Media, Contemporary Literature
- Editor
- Russ, Daniel
- Thuswaldner, Gregor
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 11 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319521985
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-52197-8