(Post)moderní Inferno: Třetí strážník Flanna O'Briena a středověké a moderní vize zásvětí

I have discussed earlier Noman's hallucinatory experience of "woodenness" spreading across his whole body - "a dry timber poison killing me" (119). It provides another stage in the consistently allegorical construction of the motif. Noman's moment of enlightenment, the...

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Main Author: Ruczaj, Maciej
Other Authors: Pilný, Ondřej
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-289533
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spelling ndltd-nusl.cz-oai-invenio.nusl.cz-2895332017-06-27T04:41:33Z (Post)moderní Inferno: Třetí strážník Flanna O'Briena a středověké a moderní vize zásvětí (Post)Modern Inferno: Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman between modern and medieval netherworlds Ruczaj, Maciej Pilný, Ondřej Armand, Louis I have discussed earlier Noman's hallucinatory experience of "woodenness" spreading across his whole body - "a dry timber poison killing me" (119). It provides another stage in the consistently allegorical construction of the motif. Noman's moment of enlightenment, the possibility of the discovery of an allegorical meaning, is of course immediately distorted by the fact that Noman is already dead and - if his dwelling-place is hell - there is no possibility of further degradation, he is all "wood" by now. "Woodenness" he correctly associates with death, yet as always he misses the point as it is primarily a "spiritual" death that is signalized here. 2007 info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-289533 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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description I have discussed earlier Noman's hallucinatory experience of "woodenness" spreading across his whole body - "a dry timber poison killing me" (119). It provides another stage in the consistently allegorical construction of the motif. Noman's moment of enlightenment, the possibility of the discovery of an allegorical meaning, is of course immediately distorted by the fact that Noman is already dead and - if his dwelling-place is hell - there is no possibility of further degradation, he is all "wood" by now. "Woodenness" he correctly associates with death, yet as always he misses the point as it is primarily a "spiritual" death that is signalized here.
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