LEADER 04399nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910789964103321 005 20230725032002.0 010 $a0-8262-7247-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160300 035 $a(OCoLC)781858200 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10554742 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000657487 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11456189 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657487 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10680510 035 $a(PQKB)11333528 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3440773 035 $a(OCoLC)868217687 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26875 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3440773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10554742 035 $a(OCoLC)932311720 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160300 100 $a20120509d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA more beautiful question$b[electronic resource] $ethe spiritual in poetry and art /$fGlenn Hughes 210 $aColumbia, Mo. $cUniversity of Missouri Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (185 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8262-1917-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChildhood, transcendence, and art -- Spiritual functions of art -- Elemental meaning and Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Emily Dickinson and the unknown God -- A pattern of timeless moments : T. S. Eliot's Four quartets -- Art and spiritual growth. 330 $aAs more and more people in North America and Europe have distanced themselves from mainstream religious traditions over the past centuries, a "crisis of faith" has emerged and garnered much attention. But Glenn Hughes, author of A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art, contends that despite the withering popularity of faith-based worldviews, our times do not evince a decline in spirituality. One need only consider the search for "alternative" religious symbolisms, as well as the growth of groups espousing fundamentalist religious viewpoints, to recognize that spiritual concerns remain a vibrant part of life in Western culture. Hughes offers the idea that the modern "crisis of faith" is not a matter of vanishing spiritual concerns and energy but rather of their disorientation, even as they remain pervasive forces in human affairs. And because art is the most effective medium for spiritually evocation, it is our most significant touchstone for examining this spiritual disorientation, just as it remains a primary source of inspiration for spiritual experience. A More Beautiful Question is concerned with how art, and especially poetry, functions as a vehicle of spiritual expression in today's modern cultures. The book considers the meeting points of art, poetry, religion, and philosophy, in part through examining the treatments of consciousness, transcendence, and art in the writings of twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan. A major portion of A More Beautiful Question is devoted to detailed "case studies" of three influential modern poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and T. S. Eliot. In these and its other chapters, the book examines the human need for artistic symbols that evoke the mystery of transcendence, the ways in which poetry and art illuminate the spiritual meanings of freedom, and the benefits of an individual's loving study of great literature and art. A More Beautiful Question has a distinctive aim--to clarify the spiritual functions of art and poetry in relation to contemporary confusion about transcendent reality--and it meets that goal in a manner accessible by the layperson as well as the scholar. By examining how the best art and poetry address our need for spiritual orientation, this book makes a valuable contribution to the philosophies of art, literature, and religion, and brings deserved attention to the significance of the "spiritual" in the study of these disciplines. 606 $aSpirituality in literature 606 $aSpirituality in art 615 0$aSpirituality in literature. 615 0$aSpirituality in art. 676 $a809.93382 700 $aHughes$b Glenn$01505896 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789964103321 996 $aA more beautiful question$93735860 997 $aUNINA