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The Tower of Babel and the skyscrapers in Stephen Crane's "An Experiment in Misery". (Essays).

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From: ANQ
Date: 20030322
Author:Tritt, Michael

Allusions to the Bible as well as religious symbolism are commonplace in Stephen Crane's work, and thus it is not surprising that one of his New York. sketches, "An Experiment in Misery," should allude to the story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis. Given the pervasive influence of religion generally and of the Bible in particular on the author, it is surprising that critical commentary has ignored the allusion to the idolatrous Babylonians who tried to build a tower reaching to the heavens. (1) Parallels may be drawn between the structure the Babylonians sought to build and the ...

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