Thomas Harris and William Blake : Allusions in the Hannibal Lecter Novels /
Gompf, Michelle Leigh, 1970-
Thomas Harris and William Blake : Allusions in the Hannibal Lecter Novels / Michelle Leigh Gompf. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Under every good is a hell": William Blake's view of good and evil -- "The wickedness herein I took from my own stock": Thomas Harris's creation of evil -- The dragon and the tyger: Red Dragon -- Typhoid and swans: Silence of the Lambs -- Harris's marriage of heaven and hell: Hannibal -- Printing in the infernal method: Hannibal Rising -- Conclusion: "Without contraries there is no progression": Lecter's Blakean progression to balance.
"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"--
9781476606163
Harris, Thomas, 1940- --Criticism and interpretation.
Good and evil in literature.
Allusions in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS3558 / .T466 2013
Thomas Harris and William Blake : Allusions in the Hannibal Lecter Novels / Michelle Leigh Gompf. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Under every good is a hell": William Blake's view of good and evil -- "The wickedness herein I took from my own stock": Thomas Harris's creation of evil -- The dragon and the tyger: Red Dragon -- Typhoid and swans: Silence of the Lambs -- Harris's marriage of heaven and hell: Hannibal -- Printing in the infernal method: Hannibal Rising -- Conclusion: "Without contraries there is no progression": Lecter's Blakean progression to balance.
"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"--
9781476606163
Harris, Thomas, 1940- --Criticism and interpretation.
Good and evil in literature.
Allusions in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS3558 / .T466 2013