To Hell with It
Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante's Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 March 2021
- Number of Volumes Trade Paperback
- ISBN 9781496224606
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages180 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 240 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 31 illustrations, index 192
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Short description:
Dinty W. Moore asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing something that only makes us miserable?
Long description:
Dante published his ambitious and unusual poem, Divine Comedy, more than seven hundred years ago. In the ensuing centuries countless retellings, innumerable adaptations, tens of thousands of fiery sermons from Catholic bishops and Baptist preachers, all those New Yorker cartoons, and masterpieces of European art have afforded Dante’s fictional apparition of hell unending attention and credibility. Dinty W. Moore did not buy in.
Moore started questioning religion at a young age, quizzing the nuns in his Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural conditioning, Moore still can’t shake the feelings of inadequacy, and asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable? In To Hell with It, Moore reflects on and pokes fun at the over-seriousness of religion in various texts, combining narratives of his everyday life, reflections on his childhood, and religion’s influence on contemporary culture and society.
Table of Contents:
Author’s Note
Prologue: The Hole
1. Cantos I–III: Dinty’s Inferno
2. Canto IV: Pudgy, Smiley, Jughead, and Fritz
3. Canto V: The Burning Bush
4. Canto VI: Gobbets of Chicken
5. Canto VII: Some Precious Blood, a Speck of Bone
6. Canto VIII: Into the Pickling Swill
7. Cantos IX–XI: The Little Heretic’s New Baltimore Catechism
8. Cantos XII–XVII: The Hell Hole
9. Cantos XVIII–XXX: Bring on the Ass Trumpets
10. Cantos XXXI–XXXIV: Beyond Goode and Evil
Epilogue: My Paradiso (With Basil and Tomato Cream)
Acknowledgments
Index
