Babylon or New Jerusalem?: Perceptions of the City in Literature.PN56 90-420-1873-9 Babylon or New Jerusalem New Jerusalem new paradise; dwelling of God among men. [N.T.: Revelation 21:2] See : Heaven ?; perceptions of the city in literature. Title main entry. Ed. by Valeria Tinkler-Villani. (DQR DQR Disjoint Queuing Region DQR Designated Quality Representative DQR Data Quality Remediation DQR Digital Quality Reception DQR Data Quality Report studies in literature; 32) Editions Rodopi, [c]2005 301 p. $88.00 Twenty essays from international academics explore the concept of the city in literature. Texts discussed range from Renaissance plays to contemporary novels and poetry of various periods. Topics include (for example) the burial burial, disposal of a corpse in a grave or tomb. The first evidence of deliberate burial was found in European caves of the Paleolithic period. Prehistoric discoveries include both individual and communal burials, the latter indicating that pits or ossuaries were of the dead in Charles Dickens's London; the boxing tale as urban genre; and urban spaces in post-apartheid South African literature South African literature, literary works written in South Africa or written by South Africans living in other countries. Populated by diverse ethnic and language groups, South Africa has a distinctive literature in many African languages as well as Afrikaans (a . Tinkler-Villani teaches at Leiden U., The Netherlands, as do a number of the other contributors. |
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