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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Katabasis"”.
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Surfing Haïti, and a new wave of travel writing
… of anabasis (moving from coast to interior) and katabasis (interior to coast); and the micro level is the activity of surfing and mapping of surf breaks, offering tropes for writing with surfing in mind. The resultant intermodal writing is also a means though which Haïti is both represented and …
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A concert of hells: Journeys to the underworld in `Fin de siecle' literature
"The journey to the underworld or katabasis constitutes one of the quintessential themes in Western literature which, though the product of a mythical and theological world view, has not vanished from the consciousness of modern man. It is intriguing, however, that in many prominent thematological …
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P. Sphinx Teen
… can be classified as a descent narrative, or katabasis, employing various literary forms–––poems, short prose, essays, journal entries, interviews, and illustrations –––to tell one story: the death, from pneumonia, of my mother’s 15-year-old sister. Within the narrative, suggestions of origins …
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In the Mouth of the Cave: Subterranean Site-Specific Writing Practices in Britain from William Wordsworth to Katrina Palmer
… locates the deep ‘spot’ in modernism’s katabasis. The second section enters into the ‘cave moment’, the apotheosis of the present absence which John MacKay identifies in Wordsworth’s inscriptional poetics, to perform deep readings of muddied manuscripts: Wordsworth’s pencil-written …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
Death is inevitable yet inherently unknowable in its experience. The possibility of persistence within death lacks evidence but compels the mind. Through imagined narratives we can conceptualize possible experiences of death and afterlife spaces to address the fears and uncertainties associated …