Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art by Ziolkowski, E.

Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333918951)

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Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art by Ziolkowski, E.

Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art

$54.99
Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art by Ziolkowski, E.

Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult. Originating in the biblical tale of Elisha's mockery (2 Kings 2.23-24), this motif recurs in literature, hagiography, and art, from antiquity up to our own time, strikingly defying the conventional Judeo-Christian and Romantic image of the child as a symbol of innocence.

Author: E. Ziolkowski
ISBN-10: 0333918959
ISBN-13: 9780333918951
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2001
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.46w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 703
By E. Ziolkowski
By E. Ziolkowski
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ERIC ZIOLKOWSKI is Professor of Religion at Lafayette College. He is author of The Santification of Don Quixote: From Hildago to Priest and editor of A Museum of Faiths: Histories and Legacies of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions. In 1997 he was elected as a Life Fellow in the Society of the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture.

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