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Secrecy Curiosity and the Sacrilage of fiction

Secrecy Curiosity and the Sacrilage of fiction. Lecture in Contemporary English Literatures University of Silesia Marcin Sarnek. Dan Brown The DaVinci Code. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail I must pass on the secret

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Secrecy Curiosity and the Sacrilage of fiction

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  1. SecrecyCuriosityand the Sacrilage of fiction Lecture in Contemporary English Literatures University of Silesia Marcin Sarnek

  2. Dan Brown The DaVinci Code • Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail • I must pass on the secret • "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"

  3. Secret – Sacred • secenere, lat, sift apart, to separate as with a sieve • secrecy – calculated exclusion form participation • experience and practice of secrecy elevates the secret • secret – sacred – privacy • secrecy highlights the value of all revelations • protection and distribution of secrets – power • dissemination of information: sociology of secrecy - sociology of curiosity • secrets – truth – deception – lying

  4. Dan Brown The DaVinci Code • Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail • I must pass on the secret • "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"

  5. Secret - Truth • more fiction than facts • exposition of the secret – sacrilage • Passion of the Christ / The Da Vinci Code • secrets have to remain secret to be secret • telephone • an interplay of the thrill of desecrating defacement with the horror of blasphemy • energy liberated by acts of sacrilege • literary semi-sacrilege

  6. Robert Harris, Enigma, 1995 • Enigma, 2001, directed by Michael Apted, screenplay by Tom Stoppard

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