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UNINA9910811088403321 |
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Autore |
Rosenthal Peggy |
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Titolo |
The Poets' Jesus [[electronic resource] ] : Representations at the End of a Millennium |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
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1-280-47263-4 |
9786610472635 |
0-19-803004-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christian poetry |
Jesus Christ |
Religious poetry |
Christian poetry - History and criticism |
Religious poetry - History and criticism |
Literature - General |
Languages & Literatures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; ONE: Jesus as Christ and More: The First Eighteen Centuries; TWO: Jesus as Romantic Hero; THREE: Sliding into Modernism: Jesus Pale and Shrunken; FOUR: Crisis of the Secularized West: Postmodernism's Jesus as Antihero; FIVE: Crucified Africa: The Politicized Jesus of Africa and Beyond; SIX: Archetypal Christ: Arabic Poetry and Other Wastelands; SEVEN: Jesus Absent; EIGHT: Between Absence and Presence: Playing Around with Jesus; NINE: Jesus Present; Notes; Permissions Acknowledgments; Notes on the Artists; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Poets have always been the medium through which a culture talks of, and to, its gods. Despite the 20th century's self-definition as a secular and post-Christian epoch, this text shows it has produced poetry about Jesus of surprising quality and variety. |
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