The Motherhood of the Road : From Paradise Lost to Paradise
(2002) In Routledge studies in human resource development p.79-103- Abstract
- The Judeo-Christian tradition is a common cultural womb for many Westerners; in its literary registers travel replicates, metaphorically as well as metonymically, the story of creation: birth, living, death, or: Genesis, Exodus, the Final Judgment. Life – the exilic wandering forced upon Adam and Eve after the Fall – is an oft cited ‘first journey’ of humankind which transports a compelling ancestry from generation to generation. ‘Our’ parents’ inchoate adventure patterned travel as a pilgrimage which, on the one hand, figures in literature as a search for ‘the desired country’. This is the destination of, for example, Christian of the popular allegory and devout journey of spirituality The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan 1678). The pilgrimage... (More)
- The Judeo-Christian tradition is a common cultural womb for many Westerners; in its literary registers travel replicates, metaphorically as well as metonymically, the story of creation: birth, living, death, or: Genesis, Exodus, the Final Judgment. Life – the exilic wandering forced upon Adam and Eve after the Fall – is an oft cited ‘first journey’ of humankind which transports a compelling ancestry from generation to generation. ‘Our’ parents’ inchoate adventure patterned travel as a pilgrimage which, on the one hand, figures in literature as a search for ‘the desired country’. This is the destination of, for example, Christian of the popular allegory and devout journey of spirituality The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan 1678). The pilgrimage may, on the other hand, provide a framework for the telling of lascivious, ungodly tales such as the parodic Canterbury Tales (Chaucer 1386), a veritable antithesis of The Pilgrim’s Progress. (Less)
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- author
- Enevold, Jessica LU
- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Interpreting the Maternal Organisation
- series title
- Routledge studies in human resource development
- editor
- Höpfl, Heather and Kostera, Monika
- pages
- 25 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85070404516
- ISBN
- 9780203216552
- 0-415-28574-7
- DOI
- 10.4324/9780203216552-13
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
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- 0168c57f-7ca0-4da2-918f-66264db9feb7 (old id 1496074)
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