Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period
Title | Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Domestico |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2017-10-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1421423324 |
What if the religious themes and allusions in modernist poetry are not just metaphors? Following the religious turn in other disciplines, literary critics have emphasized how modernists like Woolf and Joyce were haunted by Christianity’s cultural traces despite their own lack of belief. In Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period, Anthony Domestico takes a different tack, arguing that modern poets such as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and David Jones were interested not just in the aesthetic or social implications of religious experience but also in the philosophically rigorous, dogmatic vision put forward by contemporary theology. These poets took seriously the truth claims of Christian theology: for them, religion involved intellectual and emotional assent, doctrinal articulation, and ritual practice. Domestico reveals how an important strand of modern poetry actually understood itself in and through the central theological questions of the modernist era: What is transcendence, and how can we think and write about it? What is the sacramental act, and how does its wedding of the immanent and the transcendent inform the poetic act? How can we relate kairos (holy time) to chronos (clock time)? Seeking answers to these complex questions, Domestico examines both modernist institutions (the Criterion) and specific works of modern poetry (Eliot’s Four Quartets and Jones’s The Anathemata). The book also traces the contours of what it dubs “theological modernism”: a body of poetry that is both theological and modernist. In doing so, this book offers a new literary history of the modernist period, one that attends both to the material circulation of texts and to the broader intellectual currents of the time.
Modernism and Theology
Title | Modernism and Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Rzepa |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030615308 |
This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in Christian theology from a transnational and interdenominational perspective. It offers a cultural history of the period, considering a wide range of literary and historical sources, including novels, drama, poetry, literary criticism, encyclicals, theological and philosophical treatises, periodical publications, and wartime propaganda. By contextualising literary modernism within the cultural, religious, and political landscape, the book reveals fundamental yet largely forgotten connections between literary and theological modernisms. It shows that early-twentieth-century authors, poets, and critics, including Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Czesław Miłosz, actively engaged with the debates between modernist and neo-scholastic theologians raging across Europe. These debates contributed to developing new ways of thinking about the relationship between religion and literature, and informed contemporary critical writings on aesthetics and poetics.
The Theology of Modern Fiction
Title | The Theology of Modern Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Gunn Selby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Theology and Agency in Early Modern Literature
Title | Theology and Agency in Early Modern Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Rosendale |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108418848 |
Explores fundamental questions of human will and action in early modern theology and literature.
The Theology of Modern Literature
Title | The Theology of Modern Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Law Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Christianity in literature |
ISBN |
An Index of Modern Books on Theology and General Literature published ... by F. & J. Rivington
Title | An Index of Modern Books on Theology and General Literature published ... by F. & J. Rivington PDF eBook |
Author | Francis RIVINGTON (and RIVINGTON (John)) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1852 |
Genre | |
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The Imagination's New Beginning: Theology and Modern Literature
Title | The Imagination's New Beginning: Theology and Modern Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick J. Hoffman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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