Church, City, and Labyrinth in Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor by Thomas, Marilyn

Church, City, and Labyrinth in Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820420585)

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Church, City, and Labyrinth in Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor by Thomas, Marilyn

Church, City, and Labyrinth in Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor

$47.95
Church, City, and Labyrinth in Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor by Thomas, Marilyn

Church, City, and Labyrinth in Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor

$47.95
Format: Hardcover
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Historically city and church have a common origin in the mythic labyrinth - tortuous, walled passageways enclosing a space considered sacred to the demigod. Gradually both concept and fact changed. By the end of the nineteenth century the city is perceived as a labyrinth, but labyrinth as a place of confusion and chaos instead of order. Man, the builder of cities to transcend the profane, becomes man, the demon who is trapped in his own creation. Brontë, Dickens, and Hardy, whose novels span the nineteenth century, and Butor, who presents a culminating expression of the theme on the twentieth century, portray the changing relationship of church and city.

Author: Marilyn Thomas
ISBN-10: 0820420581
ISBN-13: 9780820420585
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1993
Pages: 147
Format: Hardcover
By Marilyn Thomas
By Marilyn Thomas
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The Author: Marilyn Thomas Faulkenburg received her doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a Professor of Managerial Communication at Menlo College in Atherton, California. Her literary criticism has appeared in numerous journals. An essay on Kierkegaard appears in the 1992 edition of Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, edited by Gale Research Inc.

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