Enigmatic bliss
Subtitle: the paradise motif in literature
By: Ingrid G. Daemmrich.
Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ;; v. 25
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Paradise in literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-236) and index.