Abstract

This chapter presents a more formalist approach to Hell, showing that however Hell is defined or whatever people think being in Hell means, the ideas are influenced by the conventions and dynamics of narrative. It views Hell as a chronotope, which is a generically distinct representation of time and space in narrative, and looks at the representation of the image of the human subject in distinctive and particular ways. The chapter shows that people can challenge the traditional chronotropic representations of Hell as temporally fixed and spatially distanced, which makes it feared and revered as a theological absolute.

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