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Hardcover Church, City, and Labyrinth in Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor Book

ISBN: 0820420581

ISBN13: 9780820420585

Church, City, and Labyrinth in Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor

Historically city and church have a common origin in the mythic labyrinth - tortuous, walled passageways enclosing a space considered sacred to the demigod. Gradually both concept and fact changed. By the end of the nineteenth century the city is perceived as a labyrinth, but labyrinth as a place of confusion and chaos instead of order. Man, the builder of cities to transcend the profane, becomes man, the demon who is trapped in his own creation...

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