TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ingrid Daemmrich
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Enigmatic Bliss
T2  - The Paradise Motif in Literature
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1085840
N2  - 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.
KW  - ambiguities, enigmas, myth
LA  - English
ER  -