The sacred desert [[electronic resource] ] : religion, literature, art, and culture / / David Jasper
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Jasper David
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| Titolo: |
The sacred desert [[electronic resource] ] : religion, literature, art, and culture / / David Jasper
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 230 |
| 248 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Spiritual life - Christianity |
| Deserts - Religious aspects - Christianity | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: meeting points -- The Bible, Schoenberg, and Heidegger -- The desert fathers : wanderings and miracles -- Time and memory, wind and space : the desert and mysticism -- Mysticism and modernity : Thomas Merton meets Don Cupitt -- The literature of the desert, I : travellers and poets -- The literature of the desert, II : novelists -- Artists : Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Viola, and American abstract expressionism -- Films of the desert : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis -- Desert theology and total presence : the poets William Blake and Yves Bonnefoy meet Hegel and Tom Altizer -- Conclusion: meeting point. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Sacred Desert is a reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.:.; An original reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.; Discusses figures as diverse as Jesus, the early Christian Desert Fathers, T.E. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Georgia O'Keeffe, Wim Wenders and Jim Crace.; Makes connections across millennia of desert literature.; Deepens the reader's understanding of the desert as a real place, as an interior space, and as a textual site,.; Concludes with comments on the recent conflicts in Iraq.; Written in a r |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The sacred desert |
| ISBN: | 1-281-31113-8 |
| 9786611311131 | |
| 0-470-77649-8 | |
| 0-470-77722-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910145268703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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