The absence of God in modernist literature [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Erickson

• Autore: Erickson Gregory
• Pubblicazione: Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.933820211
• Soggetto topico: God in literature; Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
• 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 .
• Titolo autorizzato: The absence of God in modernist literature
• ISBN: 1-281-36328-6; 9786611363284; 0-230-60426-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811362303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II