LEADER 03295nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910816343203321 005 20240505165417.0 010 $a1-282-46669-0 010 $a9786612466694 010 $a1-4411-6648-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000002987 035 $a(EBL)476521 035 $a(OCoLC)647854402 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342298 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11280402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342298 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10285215 035 $a(PQKB)11149885 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10362027 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL246669 035 $a(OCoLC)893334776 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000002987 100 $a20100212d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aReligion, literature and the imagination $esacred worlds /$fedited by Mark Knight and Louise Lee 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum literary studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4411-3968-0 311 $a1-84706-417-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a10. De Quincey's Uses of the Bible: Biblical Time and Psychological Time11. Re-imagining Biblical Exegesis; 12. Saving Literary Criticism; Notes; Index 330 $aThe study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aReligion in literature 606 $aReligion and literature 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aReligion in literature. 615 0$aReligion and literature. 676 $a809.93382 701 $aKnight$b Mark$f1972-$01639771 701 $aLee$b Louise$01159535 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816343203321 996 $aReligion, literature and the imagination$94080096 997 $aUNINA