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ISBN: 0268159408

ISBN13: 9780268159405

Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature

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Taking its title from a poem of William Butler Yeats, this collection of essays focuses on "Adam's Curse"--the burdens and harsh conditions that, as Denis Donoghue underscores throughout, make any human achievement difficult. As he says, those "conditions include at various levels of reference the Fall of Man, categorical failure, loss, the limitations inscribed so insistently in human life that they seem to be in the nature of things, like death...

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