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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811362303321

Autore

Erickson Gregory

Titolo

The absence of God in modernist literature / / Gregory Erickson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36328-6

9786611363284

0-230-60426-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

809.933820211

Soggetti

God in literature

Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Literature after the Death of God; 1 Reading God/God Writing: The Irrational and Difficult Name; 2 The Golden Bowl, Atheology, and Nothing; 3 À La Recherche and Proust's Unstable Metaphors of Divinity; 4 Proust's Theology of Music; 5 Schoenberg's Godless Silences: Atonality, Poetry, and the Challenge of Coherence; 6 Schoenberg's Impossible God: Moses und Aron; Epilogue: The Other Side of God: Reading in the Dark; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .