
Published online:
22 March 2012
Published in print:
26 October 2004
Online ISBN:
9780748651733
Print ISBN:
9780748617630
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Karl Marx’s katabasis Karl Marx’s katabasis
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Postmodern Capitalist Hell: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark Postmodern Capitalist Hell: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark
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Lanark’s search for roots Lanark’s search for roots
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Can realism lead fantasy out of Hell? Can fantasy help realism? Can realism lead fantasy out of Hell? Can fantasy help realism?
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
7 Postmodern Hell and the Search for Roots
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Published:October 2004
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Falconer, Rachel, 'Postmodern Hell and the Search for Roots', Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives since 1945 (Edinburgh , 2004; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 22 Mar. 2012), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748617630.003.0008, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter takes a look at the continuing relevance of the Marxist idea of a descent into the underworld of the workplace, demonstrating how the descents into Hell operate within social and economic contexts, where the ‘base’ is no longer considered to be synonymous with truth and reality. It states that the underworld revelation often turns out to be as tricky and as fantastical as the desires which are pursued by capitalist consumers within the overlying ‘superstructure’.
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