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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816343203321

Titolo

Religion, literature and the imagination : sacred worlds / / edited by Mark Knight and Louise Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009

ISBN

1-282-46669-0

9786612466694

1-4411-6648-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies

Altri autori (Persone)

KnightMark <1972->

LeeLouise

Disciplina

809.93382

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Religion in literature

Religion and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Notes toward a Supreme Addiction: The Theology Fiction of William Blake and Philip K. Dick; 3. God's Little Mountains: Young Geoffrey Hill and the Problem of Religious Poetry; 4. Religion, Truth and the 'New Aestheticism'; 5. The Deconstruction of Christianity: From the Hand of God to the Hand of Man; 6. Deity in Dispatches: The Crimean Beginnings of Muscular Christianity; 7. Israel Zangwill, Jewish Identity and Visceral Religion; 8. I Am Not Walter Benjamin; 9. 'The Oldest Dream of All': Heaven in Contemporary Fiction

10. De Quincey's Uses of the Bible: Biblical Time and Psychological Time11. Re-imagining Biblical Exegesis; 12. Saving Literary Criticism; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary



resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that