%0 Book
%A Ingrid Daemmrich
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Enigmatic Bliss
%B The Paradise Motif in Literature
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1085840
%X What power has assured the continual fascination of writers with paradise? This book suggests that the answer lies in the complex, dynamic, and enigmatic roles offered by adopting paradise as a literary motif. Once it has shifted from myth to a flexible component of literary texts, it builds diverse significations and contexts into a recognizable literary construct and then plays these against each other in a fluid series of ambiguities and enigmas. This process encourages ever new contextualizations of paradise in response to changing cultural, technological, and social conditions.
%K ambiguities, enigmas, myth
%G English