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Oventile, Robert Savino

 
9781934542330: Satan's Secret Daughters: The Muse as Daemon
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1934542334 ISBN 13 : 9781934542330
Editeur : The Davies Group, Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Satan’s Secret Daughters explores the nihilistic fate of demonization that muses undergo in the wake of Christianity. Heraclitus names the being calling us to our fates a daemon. Homer’s Iliad affirms Athena as Achilles’s daemonic muse. In Proverbs, Wisdom inspires God to let the creation be. But the New Testament knows the daemonic as demonic, as being of Satan and so ultimately of nothingness. Displaced by Christ, Wisdom joins Athena in the exile into nothingness that Christian monotheism would effect. However, Athena and Wisdom return in English literature as ambiguously daemonic and demonic muses who inspire their votaries to grapple with nihilism. Satan’s Secret Daughters tracks the fate of daemonic muses in Shakespeare’s Othello, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Melville’s Moby-Dick. Such muses come to an aging mercenary (Othello), a prideful archangel (Satan), and a wounded sea-captain (Ahab), inspiring each toward an impossible restitution. Satan’s Secret Daughters concludes with an examination of Sandy Florian’s The Tree of No, a culmination of and reply to the tradition of the demonized daemonic muse.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Satan’s Secret Daughters explores the nihilistic fate of demonization that muses undergo in the wake of Christianity. Heraclitus names the being calling us to our fates a daemon. Homer’s Iliad affirms Athena as Achilles’s daemonic muse. In Proverbs, Wisdom inspires God to let the creation be. But the New Testament knows the daemonic as demonic, as being of Satan and so ultimately of nothingness. Displaced by Christ, Wisdom joins Athena in the exile into nothingness that Christian monotheism would effect. However, Athena and Wisdom return in English literature as ambiguously daemonic and demonic muses who inspire their votaries to grapple with nihilism. Satan’s Secret Daughters tracks the fate of daemonic muses in Shakespeare’s Othello, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Melville’s Moby-Dick. Such muses come to an aging mercenary (Othello), a prideful archangel (Satan), and a wounded sea-captain (Ahab), inspiring each toward an impossible restitution. Satan’s Secret Daughters concludes with an examination of Sandy Florian’s The Tree of No, a culmination of and reply to the tradition of the demonized daemonic muse.

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Savino Oventile professes English at Pasadena City College. He is the author of Impossible Reading: Idolatry and Diversity in Literature (The Davies Group, Publishers).

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Éditeur
The Davies Group, Publishers
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1934542334
ISBN 13 
9781934542330
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
406
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