The sacred desert [[electronic resource] ] : religion, literature, art, and culture / / David Jasper

• Autore: Jasper David
• 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
• 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.: 996218633503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno