An edition of The life below the ground (1987)

IThe Life Below the Ground: A Study of the Subterranean in Literature and History

a study of the subterranean in literature and history

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An edition of The life below the ground (1987)

IThe Life Below the Ground: A Study of the Subterranean in Literature and History

a study of the subterranean in literature and history

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Underground -- the word connotes danger and sanctuary, the subway and the bomb shelter, the desperation of the fugitive and the peace of the tomb. The idea of the underground is as pervasive and subtle a theme as we have in Western literature, myth, song, and social criticism, and yet this intense source of metaphor has never been explored in a manner broad enough to connect all its themes.
* Wendy Lesser, editor and publisher of the Threepenny Review, leads the reader through familiar underground worlds in literature, such as Dante's Inferno and Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, through the lost lands such as Troy that archaeology reveals, through the political and criminal underworlds that capture the headlines, and into the powerful fantasy undergrounds such as Alice's Wonderland. Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Ralph Ellison, and others emerge as visionary users of underground as metaphor for the human condition.
* In its scope and breathtaking originality, The Life Below the Ground is a singular critical achievement, and a vital contribution to our understanding of myth and metaphor.
-- inside cover

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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Language
English
Pages
207

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Notes on the Underground
The Thriller Underworld
Journeys into the Underground: Science and Myth
Digging for the Past: Poets and Archaeologists
The Nether World: Class and Technology
Darkness and Invisibility
Depths of Self: The Body and the Unconscious
The Child's Underground
Three Underground Fantasies

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 203-207.

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.93372
Library of Congress
PN56.O7 L4 1987, PN56.O7L4 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
207 p. ;
Number of pages
207

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2380545M
Internet Archive
lifebelowgrounds00less
ISBN 10
0571129544
LCCN
87009134
OCLC/WorldCat
15593908
Goodreads
323962

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