Dante Inferno

Payne, Roberta L.: The Influence of Dante on Medieval English Dream Visions. New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris Peter Lang Vlg. 1989. ISBN: 978-0-8204-0505-6
The book begins with a discussion of the influence of the Divina Commedia on Pearl, in terms of religious experiences and poetics. Like Pearl, The House of Fame borrows both these thematic levels from the Italian. The Parliament of Fowls illustrates even more sophisticated borrowing techniques. Here Chaucer relies for massive thematic borrowings on really only one specific topos - the inscription on the gate of hell in Dante's Inferno. It is likely Chaucer is borrowing Dante's dream of Beatrice and the God of Love from the opening of the Vita Nuova for use in both the structure and the visual images of Criseyde's Dream of the Eagle in Book Three of Troilus and Criseyde. A brief study of John Lydgate's Temple of Glass and James I's Kingis Quair completes the study.

178 pp. Hardback *neuwertig*

[KW: Romanistik]

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Leon, Donna: Wie durch ein dunkles Glas, englische Ausgabe&Through A Glass, Darkly A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, 15, RANDOM HOUSE UK; ARROW BOOKS, ISBN: 0099491036
It's a luminous spring day in Venice, as Commissario Brunetti and Inspettore Vianello take a break from the Questura to come to the rescue of Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, who has been arrested while protesting against chemical pollution of the Venetian lagoon, only to be faced by the fury of Marco's father-in-law, owner of a glass factory on the island of Murano. But it is not Marco who has uncovered the guilty secret of the polluting glass foundries of the island of Murano, nor he whose body is found dead in front of the furnaces which burn at 1400 degrees, night and day. The victim has left clues in a copy of Dante and Brunetti must descend into an inferno to discover who is burning the land and fouling the waters of the lagoon. Will politics and expedience prevent the killer from striking again

NEUBUCH! New ed. 2010. 340 p. 18 cm; Commissario Brunetti Vol.15

[KW: Venedig; Krimis/Thriller, Englisch; Krimis/Thriller]

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Kirkham, Melanie: Beyond Archangel - The Archangel Theme in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, Oktober 2007, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638832368
Scholary Paper aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: A, Veranstaltung: Research and Bibliography, 15 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Anmerkungen: I presented this paper at a literary conference Confutati at the University of Utah in January 2007. , Abstract: In my paper Beyond Archangel I take a semiotic and thematic approach to the theme of Archangel in the novel. In the novel the term Archangel shows up over and over again and many references are made to other themes relating to heaven and hell, such as Dante's Inferno. Geographically, the novel begins in a place beyond the city Archangel. It is an actual city in the Artic named after the archangel Michael. It is the Christian archangel Michael, but a whole tradition; Judaic, Greek... surrounds him. Therefore, in the text the word Archangel takes on multiple meanings as it refers to the physical place but also the spiritual place the three main characters are in. Victor, Walton and the Creature, all three of them are beyond Archangel, that means beyond the state of being in God's grace. They are closer to hell than to heaven. Victor, one of the characters has already fallen and there is no help for him. The Creature and Walton seem to be beyond all hope for salvation as well, but one of them will ultimately be saved. It is the Creature who takes on another archangel persona and through this selfless act manages to save Walton from his fast track to damnation. Through the Creature Walton manages to shake off Victor's spell over him, and return to the save haven of Archangel. Here again, the city takes on a meaning of being a place of God. The Creature never physically returns to Archangel, but he is redeemed through his actions. The three main characters therefore represent the three different spiritual states: Fallen, redeemed and saved by grace. I will look at religion and what the meaning of an archangel is. Mary Shelley herself was acquainted with different religions and her knowledge influenced her novel, of course. I want to be present the different religious traditions that are found in the text and explore what it means for Frankenstein.

NEUBUCH! 2007. 48 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 3 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V78252

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Vassiliadis, Stefanos: An Analysis of William Blake s "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" GRIN VERLAG, Februar 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640529812
The present thesis deals with The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, one of William Blake's prophetic books. These are a series of texts, which were written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy, but expressing the poet's own personal romantic and revolutionary beliefs. It is not exactly known when the work was written. One assumes it was composed in London between 1790 and 1793 , a period of political conflict arising immediately after the French Revolution. S. Foster Damon argues that the American and French Revolution had an immense influence on Blake writing the Marriage: The American and French Revolutions promised a better world; and stirred Blake to a new enthusiasm, from which he deduced the theory that apparent Evil, such as War, is only Energy working against established order. This was a new perception of Truth; all his problems seemed solved by it; and he hailed the light triumphantly in another book, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) Apart from the opening Argument and the Song of Liberty, the entire book is written in prose. The book is about the first person narrator's visit to Hell, a concept taken by Blake from Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost. Like many other of Blake's works, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was influenced by the mysticism of Swedish theosophist Emanuel Swedenborg. Moreover, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is also in part a satire on Emanuel Swedenborg's writings, especially on Heaven and Hell from which Blake adapted the title, and on the New Jerusalem Church which was set up by Swedenborg's British followers.

NEUBUCH! 2010. 124 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 8 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V142476

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