| Description |
1 online resource (x, 190 pages) |
| Series |
Continuum literary studies |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Mark Knight and Louise Lee -- Notes toward a supreme addiction : the theology fiction of William Blake and Philip K. Dick / Geoffrey Hartman -- God's little mountains : young Geoffrey Hill and the problem of religious poetry / Kevin Hart -- Religion, truth and the 'new aestheticism' / Robert Eaglestone -- The deconstruction of Christianity : from the hand of God to the hand of man / Arthur Bradley -- Deity in dispatches : the Crimean beginnings of muscular Christianity / Louise Lee -- Israel Zangwill, Jewish identity and visceral religion / Jo Carruthers -- I am not Walter Benjamin / John Schad -- 'The oldest dream of all' : heaven in contemporary fiction / Andrew Tate -- DeQuincey's uses of the Bible : Biblical time and psychological time / Jonathan Roberts -- Re-imagining Biblical exegesis / Christopher Rowland -- Saving literary criticism / Mark Knight and Emma Mason |
| Summary |
The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism
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Religion in literature.
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Religion and literature.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts.
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Literature
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Religion in literature
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Religion and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knight, Mark, 1972-
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Lee, Louise.
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| ISBN |
9781441166487 |
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1441166483 |
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9781441139689 |
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1441139680 |
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1282466690 |
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9781282466692 |
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9786612466694 |
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6612466693 |
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