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پدید آورنده
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رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA125863
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
"No "Sombre Satan":
General Material Designation
[Article]
Other Title Information
C. S. Lewis, Milton, and Re-presentations of the Diabolical"
First Statement of Responsibility
Chad Stutz
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"C.S. Lewis is most often read as a staunch "anti-Satanist" and critic of romanticized readings of Milton's Satan, a view derived largely from his Preface to Paradise Lost. Elsewhere, however, Lewis disagrees strongly with Milton's representations of Satan, Hell, and demons, most notably in his fictional works Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, and The Screwtape Letters. To rectify what he saw as the "harm" caused by Milton's humanized depiction of the diabolical, Lewis draws upon elements of a long medieval tradition which Milton had largely avoided-the tradition of "grotesque" representation. In appropriating this tradition, Lewis aims to re-introduce a sense of terror in connection with the diabolical, a move which both suggests the violence and brutality of certain forms of evil and disallows any sympathetic identification with the Devil on the part of the reader. In contrast to Milton, then, Lewis portrays a Devil that is aggressive and animalistic, and a Hell that is despotic and intrinsically unstable. At the same time, however, Lewis was keenly aware that especially in modern society the diabolical can often exist within the seemingly "normal," and his employment of the grotesque finally urges a chilling recognition of the terrible within each of us."
SET
Date of Publication
2005
Physical description
208-234
Title
Religion and the Arts
Volume Number
9/3-4
International Standard Serial Number
1568-5292
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Art History
Subject Term
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
Subject Term
General
Subject Term
History
Subject Term
Religious Studies
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Chad Stutz
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/156852905775008804
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مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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