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There are several prominent literary allusions running throughout Descent Into Hell. Battle Hill's resident poet, Peter Stanhope, frequently quotes and references William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Percy Bysshe Shelley's work Prometheus Unbound is also referenced repeatedly, regarding the appearance of a doppelgänger.
The Gospel of Nicodemus including the Descent into Hell; Harrowing of Hell Archived March 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine in the Chester Cycle; Le Harrowing of Hell dans les Cycles de York, Towneley et Chester, by Alexandra Costache-Babcinschi (ebook, French) Lord's Descent into Hell, The; Russian Orthodox iconography of the Harrowing of Hell
In a largely negative review in The New York Times, Joan Didion described the novel's grappling with questions of sanity and insanity as "less than astonishing stuff". She noted parallels between the novel and the writings of Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing. [5]
Aeneas: Hero of Virgil's epic poem Aeneid, his descent into hell is a primary source for Dante's own journey. Son of Anchises, fled the fall of Troy. Inf. I, 74–75. "Father of Sylvius", journey to Hades, founder of Rome. Inf. II, 13–27. When Dante doubts he has the qualities for his great voyage, he tells Virgil "I am no Aeneas, no Paul ...
Malcolm Lowry paralleled Dante's descent into hell with Geoffrey Firmin's descent into alcoholism in his epic novel Under the Volcano (1947). In contrast to the original, Lowry's character explicitly refuses grace and "chooses hell," though Firmin does have a Dr. Vigil as a guide (and his brother, Hugh Firmin, quotes the Comedy from memory in ...
The phrase “angry woman” is bandied around as some kind of insult; spat out in the same breath as “angry feminist” or “bra burner” or “calm down, dear”.
Descent into Hell (French: Descente aux enfers) is a 1986 French psychological thriller film directed by Francis Girod from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Loup Dabadie, based on the 1955 novel The Wounded and the Slain by David Goodis.
Charles Williams was born in London in 1886, the only son of (Richard) Walter Stansby Williams (1848–1929) and Mary (née Wall). His father Walter was a journalist and foreign business correspondent for an importing firm, writing in French and German, [1] [2] who was a 'regular and valued' contributor of verse, stories and articles to many popular magazines. [3]