Title: Enigmatic bliss
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Paradise in literature
LC classification: PN56.P25 D34 1997