Modernism and Theology

Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czes¿aw Mi¿osz
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-61532-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

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 Czeslaw Milosz, 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rzepa, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. A Theological History of Modernism.- 3. Spiritualising the War: Religion, Conflict, and Politics.- 4. Spaces of Encounter: Theological Modernism and Neo-Scholasticism in Literature  and Literary Criticism.- 5. The Ripening Dark God of Modernity: Religion and Creativity in Rainer Maria Rilke’s and Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Writings.- 6. A ‘raid on the absolute’: Dogmatic Tradition and Mystical Experience in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Criticism.- 7. ‘A passionate pursuit of the Real’: Theology and Poetics in Czeslaw Milosz’s Writings.- 8. Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Rzepa is Lecturer in Literature in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK. She researches and teaches twentieth-century literature and culture, comparative literature, and literary translation. Her work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Comparative Critical Studies, Translation Studies, and other leading journals.