Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art

Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult. Originating in the biblical tale of Elisha's mockery (2 Kings 2.23-24), this motif recurs in literature, hagiography, and art, from antiquity up to our own time, strikingly defying the conventional Judeo-Christian and Romantic image of the child as a symbol of innocence.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Boys of Bethal as Sacrilegious Type Patristic and Medieval Views of 2 Kings 2.23-24 Children of the Passion Passive Saints, Aggressive Urchins The Bethal Boys Motif at the Dawn of Modernity Nineteenth-Century Antitypes of the Bethal Boys Twentieth-Century Antitypes of the Bethal Boys Conclusion Notes Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

ERIC ZIOLKOWSKI is Professor of Religion at Lafayette College. He is author of The Santification of Don Quixote: From Hildago to Priest and editor of A Museum of Faiths: Histories and Legacies of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions. In 1997 he was elected as a Life Fellow in the Society of the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture.

Zusammenfassung

Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult.

Zusatztext

'...thoughtful treatment of the deeply ambivalent, conflict-ridden relationship between children and adults.' - Kelly Bulkeley, Journal of Religion

Bericht

'...thoughtful treatment of the deeply ambivalent, conflict-ridden relationship between children and adults.' - Kelly Bulkeley, Journal of Religion

Produktdetails

• Autoren: E Ziolkowski, E. Ziolkowski
• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349423941
• ISBN: 978-1-349-42394-1
• Seiten: 253
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
• Gewicht: 398 g
• Illustration: XVIII, 253 p.
• Serien: Cross Currents in Religion and Culture; Cross-Currents in Religion and; Cross Currents in Religion and Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Religion, B, Cultural Studies, Fine Arts, Fiction, Bibles, Religion: general, History of Religion, Fine Art, Religion—History, Religious Studies, general, Fine arts: art forms, Bible—Theology, Biblical Studies, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, The Arts: art forms