Embarking on a relatively new area of humanistic study, Meadows analyzes the very real consciousness of a fictive character existing in a fictive lifeworld. Her subject in the fallen monk Ambrosio in Matthew Lewis' Gothic novel The Monk (1796), who takes a journey to damnation of his self in a physical pattern similar to the journey in Dante. She uses hermeneutic-phenomenology to read the symbols presented to his consciousness and his reaction to those archetypal figures. She covers in the beginning, the symbolism of objective or original sin, at the mouth of the path to subjective sin, the symbolism of defilement, movement from the unhappy conscious to the accused conscious, and sin-internalized as guilt and punishment. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
