Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Descent and Return – the katabatic imagination
- 1 Hell in Our Time
- 2 Chronotopes of Hell
- 3 Auschwitz as Hell
- 4 Surviving with Ghosts: Second-generation Holocaust Narratives
- 5 Katabatic Memoirs of Mental Illness
- 6 Engendering Dissent in the Underworld
- 7 Postmodern Hell and the Search for Roots
- 8 East-West Descent Narratives
- Epilogue: Katabasis in the Twenty-First Century
- Appendix: Primo Levi, ‘Map of reading’
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Descent and Return – the katabatic imagination
- 1 Hell in Our Time
- 2 Chronotopes of Hell
- 3 Auschwitz as Hell
- 4 Surviving with Ghosts: Second-generation Holocaust Narratives
- 5 Katabatic Memoirs of Mental Illness
- 6 Engendering Dissent in the Underworld
- 7 Postmodern Hell and the Search for Roots
- 8 East-West Descent Narratives
- Epilogue: Katabasis in the Twenty-First Century
- Appendix: Primo Levi, ‘Map of reading’
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Hell in Contemporary LiteratureWestern Descent Narratives since 1945, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2004