Atkins Literary Paths to Religious Understanding

Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-10417-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection

This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkins, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 'The hint half guessed, the gift half understood' Essaying the Via Media : John Dryden's Religio Laici and Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man ' A grander scheme of salvation than the christian religion': John Keats, a New Religion of Love, and the Hoodwinking of 'The Eve of St. Agnes' George Eliot's Layman's Faith: The Lyrical Essay-Novel Adam Bede Priests of Eternal Imagination: Literature and Religion The Instance of James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Journey towards Understanding: T.S. Eliot and the Progress of the 'Intelligent Believer' 'Religious Feeling without Religious Images': E.B. White's Essays Religio Criticae: An Essay on Reception and Response

Über Autor(innen)

G. DOUGLAS ATKINS is professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA and author or co-editor of thirteen books, including the forthcoming On the Familiar Essay (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).