- Taschenbuch: 320 Seiten
- Verlag: Griffin; Auflage: First. (Oktober 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312244428
- ISBN-13: 978-0312244422
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,3 x 1,6 x 0,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.770.017 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"Miriam Van Scott outpaces Dante...a Thomas Guide to the Dark Side." --Detour magazine
"With entries ranging from Dante's Inferno to the 1994 noir film Dark Angel: The Ascent, Van Scot's hellacious handbook entertains as it guides readers through a cultural history of Hell." --Publishers Weekly
"Fascinating reading...Van Scott's fine research and treatment of the material enables the reader to grasp specific points with great depth. All libraries will do well to add such a contemporary title." --Library Journal
"With entries ranging from Dante's Inferno to the 1994 noir film Dark Angel: The Ascent, Van Scot's hellacious handbook entertains as it guides readers through a cultural history of Hell." --Publishers Weekly
"Fascinating reading...Van Scott's fine research and treatment of the material enables the reader to grasp specific points with great depth. All libraries will do well to add such a contemporary title." --Library Journal
Kurzbeschreibung
The Encyclopedia of Hell is a comprehensive survey of the underworld, drawing information from cultures around the globe and eras throughout history. Organized in a simple-to-use alphabetic format, entries cover representations of the dark realm of the dead in mythology, religion, works of art, opera, literature, theater, music, film, and television. Sources include African legends, Native American stories, Asian folktales, and other more obscure references, in addition to familiar infernal chronicles from Western lore. The result is a catalog of underworld data, with entries running the gamut from descriptions of grisly pits of torture to humorous cartoons lampooning the everlasting abyss. Its extensive cross-referencing also supplies links between various concepts and characters from the netherworld and provides further information on particular theories.
Peruse these pages and find out for yourself what history's greatest imaginations have envisioned awaiting the wicked on the other side of the grave.
Peruse these pages and find out for yourself what history's greatest imaginations have envisioned awaiting the wicked on the other side of the grave.
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Perhaps, my expectations of this book were too high. I was looking for an amusing, yet somewhat historically thorough book. It did indeed have many underworld entities I had never heard of before. However, there were also ridiculous entries that in my opinion, were wasting space: comic books, video games, David Letterman (for saying, "this show's going to hell"). What is that? The only entry I immediately recall not finding is "Diablo"... they at least could have put it under video games... I mean, they had "Doom".
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IT WAS AN AMAZINE BOOK AND I LOVED IT, I THINK THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD READ IT, BUT ITS KINDA HARD TO READ BUT JUST GET BACK ON AND READ ITS, GOOD
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By a writer who really knows how to write readable, interesting, flowing material! From its first entry---"Abbadon" (Hebrew for "destruction")---to its last---Zoroastrainism" ("a faith that predates both Christianity and Islam")---this book is exactly what it claims to be: "a comprehensive survey of the underworld." One problem with it: hard to read it through, in sequence---entries are so fascinating, I kept jumping from topic to topic. But that's ok---it is not narrative, but fun-to-read entries about . . . oh, the hell with it---go find out for yourself.
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