The total depravity of Nick Cave's literary world

Title: The total depravity of Nick Cave's literary world
Creator: Boer, Roland
Relation: Literature and Theology Vol. 25, Issue 3, p. 312-328
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frr022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: The article argues that Nick Cave’s literary (as opposed to his musical) world is characterised by the Calvinist doctrine of total depravity. In both outlining this world and seeking the moment of redemption, I simultaneously construct the framework of that world—in terms of the deranged house of incest, substance abuse, the spread of depravity to nature itself and the way the Bible is woven into that world—and fill in its content, with a specific focus on his novels. As that world gains some body, its dialectical relation to redemption begins to emerge, although with a problematic twist.
Subject: Nick Cave; original sin; Bible; depravity; Calvinist doctrine
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054948
Identifier: uon:15812
Identifier: ISSN:0269-1205
Language: eng
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