Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians : the fantasy of the real / / Alison Milbank
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| Autore: |
Milbank Alison <1954->
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| Titolo: |
Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians : the fantasy of the real / / Alison Milbank
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : t &t clark, , 2008 |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.912 |
| Soggetto topico: | Theology in literature |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; INTRODUCTION: Fairies, Fusiliers and Thomists; PART 1 Poiesis; CHAPTER 1 Making Strange: The Fantastic; CHAPTER 2 The Grotesque; CHAPTER 3 Paradox and Riddles; PART 2 Praxis; CHAPTER 4 Fairy Economics: Gift-Exchange; CHAPTER 5 Fairy Poetics: Make-Believe; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book takes Chesterton''s ''natural theology'' through fairytales seriously as a theological project appropriate to an intellectual attempt to return to faith in a secular age. It argues that Tolkien''s fiction makes sense also as the work of a Catholic writer steeped in Chestertonian ideas and sharing his literary-theological poetics. While much writing on religious fantasy moves quickly to talk about wonder, Milbank shows that this has to be hard won and that Chesterton is more akin to the modernist writers of the early twentieth-century who felt quite dislocated from the past. His fav |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians |
| ISBN: | 0-567-65135-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820118403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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