03295nam 2200673 a 450 991081634320332120240505165417.01-282-46669-097866124666941-4411-6648-3(CKB)2550000000002987(EBL)476521(OCoLC)647854402(SSID)ssj0000342298(PQKBManifestationID)11280402(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342298(PQKBWorkID)10285215(PQKB)11149885(MiAaPQ)EBC476521(Au-PeEL)EBL476521(CaPaEBR)ebr10362027(CaONFJC)MIL246669(OCoLC)893334776(EXLCZ)99255000000000298720100212d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReligion, literature and the imagination sacred worlds /edited by Mark Knight and Louise Lee1st ed.London ;New York Continuumc20091 online resource (201 p.)Continuum literary studiesIncludes index.1-4411-3968-0 1-84706-417-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Fiction10. De Quincey's Uses of the Bible: Biblical Time and Psychological Time11. Re-imagining Biblical Exegesis; 12. Saving Literary Criticism; Notes; IndexThe 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 Continuum literary studies.LiteratureHistory and criticismReligion in literatureReligion and literatureLiteratureHistory and criticism.Religion in literature.Religion and literature.809.93382Knight Mark1972-1639771Lee Louise1159535MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816343203321Religion, literature and the imagination4080096UNINA