| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) |
| Contents |
Literature after the Death of God -- Reading God/God Writing: The Irrational and Difficult Name -- The Golden Bowl, Atheology, and Nothing -- À La Recherche and Proust's Unstable Metaphors of Divinity -- Proust's Theology of Musical Aesthetics -- Godless Silences: Modernist Poetry, Musical Atonality, and the Challenge of Coherence -- Schoenberg's Impossible God: Moses und Aron -- The Other Side of God: Reading in the Dark |
| Summary |
This book combines literary criticism, postmodern theology, philosophy, and musicology in a rethinking of the relationship of modernist literature and religion. Erickson argues that theological modes of thinking are ingrained in the very roots of our metaphysical assumptions, and are impossible to escape, even and especially in the skeptical and experimental woks of modernism. By concentrating on moments of difficulty and ambiguity in works such as Henry James?s The Golden Bowl, Marcel Proust?s In Search of Lost Time, and Arnold Schoenberg?s opera Moses und Aron, the book identifies the paradoxical construction of a god-idea buried in the tropes and metaphors of each text |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. fast (OCoLC)fst00051867 |
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God in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -.
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Opera.
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Literary theory.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts.
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Literature.
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God in literature.
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Literature, Modern.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230604261 |
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0230604269 |
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1403977585 |
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9781403977588 |
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