Augustine and LiteratureRobert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody The influence of Christianity on literature has been great throughout history, as has been the influence of the great Christian, Augustine. Augustine and Literature considers the influence of Augustine on the theory and practice of an academic discipline of which he himself was not a practitioner-literature, especially poetry and fiction. The essays in this volume explore the many influences of Augustine on literature, most obviously in terms of themes and symbols, but also more pervasively perhaps in proving that literature strives for meaning through and beyond the fictional or metaphorical surface. The authors discussed in these essays, from Dante and Milton to O'Connor and Faulkner, all demonstrate a common concern that literature must be attentive to the highest things and the deepest journeys of the soul. Together these essays offer a compelling argument that literature and Augustine do belong together in the common task of guiding the soul toward the truth it desires. |
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... essays in this volume explore the many influences of Augustine on lit- erature , most obviously in terms of themes and symbols , but also more per- vasively perhaps in proving that literature strives for a meaning through and beyond the ...
... essays in this volume explore the many influences of Augustine on lit- erature , most obviously in terms of themes and symbols , but also more per- vasively perhaps in proving that literature strives for a meaning through and beyond the ...
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... essay reveals a poem that engages in sophisticated ways with questions of historical memory , typology , and conversion . Building on recent criticism that argues that the Wanderer is an affective meditation that engages the reader ...
... essay reveals a poem that engages in sophisticated ways with questions of historical memory , typology , and conversion . Building on recent criticism that argues that the Wanderer is an affective meditation that engages the reader ...
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... essay demonstrates that they were profoundly influenced by St. Augustine . By focusing on Donne and Herbert , it explores their revival of that particular form of Christian Platonism identified with Augustine . Christine A. Jones's essay ...
... essay demonstrates that they were profoundly influenced by St. Augustine . By focusing on Donne and Herbert , it explores their revival of that particular form of Christian Platonism identified with Augustine . Christine A. Jones's essay ...
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... essay , Marylu Hill argues that the both / and nature of Ros- setti's central image of the erotic body as the vehicle for salvation — an image that is at once profoundly spiritual and profoundly erotic - can only be un- derstood through ...
... essay , Marylu Hill argues that the both / and nature of Ros- setti's central image of the erotic body as the vehicle for salvation — an image that is at once profoundly spiritual and profoundly erotic - can only be un- derstood through ...
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... essay considers both how Augustine influenced the art of Flannery O'Connor , and how O'Connor's art invites readers to re- consider Augustine's rhetoric in the Confessions . The essay begins by arguing that O'Connor considered herself ...
... essay considers both how Augustine influenced the art of Flannery O'Connor , and how O'Connor's art invites readers to re- consider Augustine's rhetoric in the Confessions . The essay begins by arguing that O'Connor considered herself ...
Contents
The Weight of Love Augustinian Metaphors of Movement in Dantes Souls | 13 |
Se ponne pisne Wealsteal Wise Gepohte An Augustinian Reading of the Early English Meditation the Wanderer | 35 |
Theres a Divinity That Shapes Our Ends An Augustinian Reading of Hamlet | 61 |
St Augustine and the Metaphysical Poets | 95 |
Eloquence for the Age of Enlightenment Fenelons St Augustine | 115 |
Justifying the Ways of God and Man Theodicy in Augustine and Milton | 137 |
The Senescence of the World Augustines Idea of History and Ibsens Emperor and Galilean | 155 |
Descend That You May Ascend Augustine Dostoevsky and the Confessions of Ivan Karamazov | 177 |
Feminine Wisdom in Augustine and Goethes Faust | 269 |
13 Faulkners Augustinian Sense of Time | 285 |
Augustinian Physicality and the Rhetoric of the Grotesque in the Art of Flannery OConnor | 299 |
Marking the Frontiers of World War II with Stabilized Disorder Rebecca West Reads St Augustine | 325 |
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Bibliography | 359 |
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Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Eucharist and the Erotic Body In Christina Rossettis Goblin Market | 213 |
Words Those Precious Cups of Meaning Augustines influence on the Thought and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ | 231 |
A Season in Hell or the Confessions of Arthur Rimbaud | 253 |
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