EAN: 9783319521978

THE HERMENEUTICS OF HELL GEBUNDEN

This collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological  Biblical 
and literary perspectives  spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. The chapters
explore demonic representations in the literary works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  Fyodor
Dostoyevsky  Dante Alighieri  Charles Baudelaire  John Milton  H.P. Lovecraft  and Cormac
McCarthy  among others. The text examines other media such as the operas Orfeo and Erminia sul
Giordano and the television shows Breaking Bad  The Sopranos  and Mad Men. The Hermeneutics of
Hell  featuring an international set of established and up-and-coming authors  masterfully
examines the evolution of the devil from the Biblical accounts of the Middle Ages to the
individualized presence of the modern world.

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