1st Edition
On the Way to Death Essays Toward a Comic Vision
Edited By A. Roy Eckardt
Copyright 1996
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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On the Way to Death completes Eckardt's astonishing trilogy on the interrelationship of comedy, death, and God. It addresses itself to the question of death as the basic incongruity of life. Here is opened to human view the final divine comedy: a total reversal of the traditional roles assigned to God and humankind, a comical denouncement of the terror of death. On the Way to Death follows Sitting in the Earth and Laughing and How to Tell God From the Devil to complete Roy Eckardt's trilogy on comedy, the devil, and God.
Preface, Introduction, Part I—Foundations, 1. The Ugliest Customer, 2. A Word for Comic Vision, Part II—Pages from the Life Journey of God: The Middle One or Two Years, 3. Poor God, 4. Before the Beginning, In the Beginning, 5. Hither and Yon: Twenty-One Divine Adventures, 6. Fall of God—Angel of Death—Triplets of History, 7. Crime—Trial—Sentence—(Secret), Part III—Long Though by No Means Lost Weekend, 8. Comedy of Expiation? Comedy of Redemption?, 9. The Easter Monday of the Imperfect Fool, 10. How To Spend the Day After Easter, Part IV—Finis, 11. A Vision Begun, Bibliography, Index
Biography
A. Roy Eckardt
