Thomas Harris and William Blake : allusions in the Hannibal Lecter novels / Michelle Leigh Gompf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gompf, Michelle Leigh, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, William, 1757-1827--Influence.

Blake, William.

Harris, Thomas, 1940---Criticism and interpretation.

Harris, Thomas.

Allusions in literature.

Good and evil in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work examines the allusions to Blake throughout Harris's four Hannibal Lecter novels and provides a Blakean reading of the works as a whole, particularly in regard to the character of Lecter and the nature of evil in the world--and to what extent humanity should accept evil. The novels and their film versions reveal that Harris uses Blake to suggest that good and evil are intertwined and coexist, and that it is foolish to try to see them simply as opposing binaries. Refusing to recognize their intertwined relationship leads to imbalance and a negative outcome, as revealed in the fate of G

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1. ""Under every Good is a hell"": William Blake's View of Good and Evil""; ""2. ""The wickedness herein I took from my own stock"": Thomas Harris's Creation of Evil""; ""3. The Dragon and the Tyger: Red Dragon""; ""4. Typhoid and Swans: Silence of the Lambs""; ""5. Harris's Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Hannibal""; ""6. Printing in the Infernal Method: Hannibal Rising""; ""Conclusion: ""Without contraries there is no progression"" �Lecter's Blakean Progression to Balance""; ""Bibliography""

""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4766-0616-1

OCLC:

862077091