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Quinones: Changes of Cain, Kain i Abel, braterstwo

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Ricardo J. Quinones

The Changes of Cain

Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature

Princeton University Press 1991

Stron VIII+284

Format: 16x24 cm, stan: bez  śladów użycia

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The first comprehensive book on the story of Cain and Abel, this brilliant work traces the changes in the way peo­ple have looked at a master metaphor of our culture. Era by era, from the writ­ings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of 'Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Einnegans Wake, Ricardo Quiñones examines the historical and cultural con­texts within which this universal myth is significant. What emerges is a forceful and embracing history of ideas that is also a profound meditation on the "fra­gility of the human compact."

More than a thematic study, The Changes of Cain explores the inner re­sources and radiating energies of the biblical story and its eventual grand al­liances with the foundation sacrifice in the classical epoch and with the double in the Romantic period. The theme is powerful because it constantly addresses a fracture in existence, and it is long-last­ing because it is so open to divergent re­sponses. Probably no characters out of our composite mythology have under­gone such startling and related transfor­mations as have Cain and Abel. Qui­ñones defines the essential qualities of the Cain-Abel story and shows how they not only endure within change but actually give birth to radically opposed interpretations.

"Ricardo Quiñones 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 constandy to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations. It is a major contribution to the present ongoing debate about the humanities, but transcends argument by the depth of its historical insights."

—Joseph Frank

"Changes of Cain is a remarkable com­bination of textual analysis, mythologie interpretation, and sociocultural and historical speculation. Ricardo Qui­ñones argues that the myth of the first family offers a unique perspective on the 'ambiguities of human action' and the 'full complexities of historical change,' one which has been continuous in hu­man consciousness since the Biblical era. This claim seems to me not at all exces­sive. Quinones's exceptionally interest­ing book is, as far as I know, the first comprehensive work on this universal myth." —Warner Berthoff

Ricardo J. Quiñones 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).

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CONTENTS

 

 

 

Acknowledgments Introduction   3

Part One: The Three Traditions

Chapter One Citizen Cain    23

Chapter Two Monstrous Cain 41

Chapter Three

Cain as Sacred Executioner  62

Part Two: Regenerate Cain

Chapter Four

Byron's Cain and Its Antecedents  87

Chapter Five The Secret Sharer  109

Chapter Six Demian  122

Chapter Seven

The New American Cain: East of Eden and Other Works of Post-World War II America  135

Part Three: Dramas of Envy

Chapter Eight Billy Budd  155

Chapter Nine

Amadeus and Prick Up Your Ears  167

Chapter Ten Abel Sanchez  173

Part Four: Tomorrow's Cain

Chapter Eleven

Cain of Future Ehstory                                                                                        185
Chapter Twelve

Twinning the Twain                                                                                              215

Epilogue                                                                                                                  238

Notes                                                                                                                                                                                     249

Index                                                                                                                                                                                     279