Fall Narratives

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche is Lecturer in Islamic Studies in the department of Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. In her research she applies a literary approach to Islamic religious sources, as a way of revealing literary paradigms and motifs, as well as inter-cultural transitions and transformations, in Islamic religious literature. Dr Hadromi-Allouche's recent works deal with prophecy and science, Islamic demonology and Islamic fall stories. She is currently focusing on the image of Eve and its various aspects in the Muslim tradition. Áine Larkinis Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen, and author of Proust Writing Photography: Fixing the Fugitive in ‘À la recherche du temps perdu’ (Oxford: Legenda, 2011). A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, in 2008 she was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Together with text/image relations and Proust studies, her research interests include literature and medicine, the literary representation of music and dance, and contemporary women’s writing in French.

• Part I Body and Space: Physical and Figurative Falls The Italic I EMMA COCKER and CLARE THORNTON Hell and Paradise for Milton: Physical Places and States of MindROBERT SEGAL Culture as Escape from the Curse: Jacques Ellul on the Fall BRIAN BROCK Part II Fall as Absence The Fall According to Classical Stoic ThoughtERLEND MACGILLIVRAY Thomas Traherne’s Theological Poetics of the FallELIZABETH S. DODD The Doctrine of the Fall in Seventeenth-Century Reformed Scholasticism: Philosophy Between Faith and ScepticismGIOVANNI GELLERA ‘Nusiel Unbound’: The Archangel and the Fall in Unification ThoughtLUKAS POKORNY Part III Intertextual Falls: Across Time and Texts Falling Masonry and the Redemption of Public Speech: Reading Milton Through Hannah ArendtHELEN LYNCH Language and the Fall in W. B. Yeats and Geoffrey HillKARL O’HANLON When Roth Reads Milton: The Fall Between Paradise Lost and American Pastoral DAVID CURRELL The Fox and the Fall: Vulpine Associations with Heresy, the Devil and Eden’s Serpent ERIC ZIOLKOWSKI Beyond the Blue Lagoon: Some Popular Reflections of the FallBRIAN MURDOCH Part IV Fall as Ascent ‘Name Him ‘Abd al-Ḥārith’: Eve’s Fall from Monotheism, and Ascent into MotherhoodZOHAR HADROMI-ALLOUCHE Fall as Ascent: The Exegesis of Gen 3-4 and 6:1-4 in the Apocryphon of John JUTTA LEONHARDT-BALZER Narrative Normativity: Four Routes to Redemption EMILY CADDICK BOURNE and CRAIG BOURNE