Religion, literature and the imagination : sacred worlds / / edited by Mark Knight and Louise Lee
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| Titolo: |
Religion, literature and the imagination : sacred worlds / / edited by Mark Knight and Louise Lee
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809.93382 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature - History and criticism |
| Religion in literature | |
| Religion and literature | |
| Altri autori: |
KnightMark <1972->
LeeLouise
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| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 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 |
| 10. De Quincey's Uses of the Bible: Biblical Time and Psychological Time11. Re-imagining Biblical Exegesis; 12. Saving Literary Criticism; Notes; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Religion, literature and the imagination |
| ISBN: | 1-282-46669-0 |
| 9786612466694 | |
| 1-4411-6648-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816343203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Continuum literary studies.