NP Satan in Lit was Re: No Country plausibility issues (spoilers!)

[davemarc]

From: the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org>
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> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
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> > I've often toyed with the idea of teaching a "Satan in Literature"
course, something that would draw from the traditional Western canon (Dante,
Marlowe, Milton, Goethe, etc.) but also include readings of characters that
have obvious Satanic parallels (Shelley's Creature or Melville's Confidence
Man, for example) ... including McCarthy's Judge Holden, who -- for me --
seems to evoke otherworldly qualities that make him more of a supernatural
force rather than a mere "monster" image.
> >
I remember a course on the devil in Russian literature....

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