Dec 4, 2008

Adam’s Curse | Adam’s Curse

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Author: Denis Donoghue
First Published: 2001
Type of Work: Religion and literary criticism
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Religion and spirituality
Subjects: Literature, Sin or Original sin, Religion, Christianity, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Jesus Christ, Religious life, Satan or Satanism, Literary criticism

The latest offering from the prolific scholar and professor of English Denis Donoghue is this series of eight lectures collected and published under the rubric Adam’s Curse. The lectures were originally delivered in 1999 at Notre Dame University as the inaugural installment of that university’s Erasmus series. The book takes its title from the first lecture, named for the poem by William Butler Yeats. The author’s interest is focused on the limits and potency of humanity, assuming an impaired human condition. He characterizes his lectures as “reflections on religion and...

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Adam’s Curse | Adam’s Curse

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