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The Changes of Cain : Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature / Ricardo J. Quinones.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1201Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (294 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691605791
  • 9781400862146
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  • 809.93352045
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: The Three Traditions -- Chapter One. CITIZEN CAIN -- Chapter Two. MONSTROUS CAIN -- Chapter Three. CAIN AS SACRED EXECUTIONER -- PART Two: Regenerate Cain -- CHAPTER FOUR. Byron's Cain and Its Antecedents -- Chapter Five. THE SECRET SHARER -- Chapter Six. DEMIAN -- Chapter Seven. THE NEW AMERICAN CAIN: EAST OF EDEN AND OTHER WORKS OF POST-WORLD WAR II AMERICA -- PART THREE: Dramas of Envy -- Chapter Eight. BILLY BUDD -- Chapter Nine. AMADEUS AND PRICK UP YOUR EARS -- Chapter Ten. ABEL SANCHEZ -- PART FOUR: Tomorrow's Cain -- Chapter Eleven. CAIN OF FUTURE HISTORY -- Chapter Twelve. TWINNING THE TWAIN -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story."Ricardo Quinones takes us on a grand tour of Western civilization in his admirable book, which reveals the riches of the Cain-Abel story as it develops from its Biblical origin to Citizen Kane and Michel Tournier. This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations."--Joseph Frank"Ricardo J. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present. What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture. . . . Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction. . . ."--James Finn Cotter, The Hudson Review"Quinones's study of how [the] three Cains were transformed by Romanticism and Modernism into a sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always necessary archetype of the modern world is literary and cultural analytic history at its very best."--ChoiceRicardo J. Quinones is Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He is the author of The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard), Dante Alighieri (Twayne), and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton).Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: The Three Traditions -- Chapter One. CITIZEN CAIN -- Chapter Two. MONSTROUS CAIN -- Chapter Three. CAIN AS SACRED EXECUTIONER -- PART Two: Regenerate Cain -- CHAPTER FOUR. Byron's Cain and Its Antecedents -- Chapter Five. THE SECRET SHARER -- Chapter Six. DEMIAN -- Chapter Seven. THE NEW AMERICAN CAIN: EAST OF EDEN AND OTHER WORKS OF POST-WORLD WAR II AMERICA -- PART THREE: Dramas of Envy -- Chapter Eight. BILLY BUDD -- Chapter Nine. AMADEUS AND PRICK UP YOUR EARS -- Chapter Ten. ABEL SANCHEZ -- PART FOUR: Tomorrow's Cain -- Chapter Eleven. CAIN OF FUTURE HISTORY -- Chapter Twelve. TWINNING THE TWAIN -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX

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Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story."Ricardo Quinones takes us on a grand tour of Western civilization in his admirable book, which reveals the riches of the Cain-Abel story as it develops from its Biblical origin to Citizen Kane and Michel Tournier. This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations."--Joseph Frank"Ricardo J. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present. What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture. . . . Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction. . . ."--James Finn Cotter, The Hudson Review"Quinones's study of how [the] three Cains were transformed by Romanticism and Modernism into a sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always necessary archetype of the modern world is literary and cultural analytic history at its very best."--ChoiceRicardo J. Quinones is Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He is the author of The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard), Dante Alighieri (Twayne), and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton).Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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