Augustine and LiteratureRobert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody Lexington Books, 2006 - 414 páginas 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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... Never , never should I have risen of myself ! " ( 481 ) . Two months later , he confirms the necessity of his descent and the reality of his ascent to Alyosha : “ A new man has risen up in me . He was hidden in me , but would never have ...
... Never , never should I have risen of myself ! " ( 481 ) . Two months later , he confirms the necessity of his descent and the reality of his ascent to Alyosha : “ A new man has risen up in me . He was hidden in me , but would never have ...
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... never diminished , and my “ little longer " lasted inordinately long . ( 8.5.12 ) Thus the human being , trapped in ... never be closed , a scroll that will never be rolled . This holy , time - free language , distinct from fallen human ...
... never diminished , and my “ little longer " lasted inordinately long . ( 8.5.12 ) Thus the human being , trapped in ... never be closed , a scroll that will never be rolled . This holy , time - free language , distinct from fallen human ...
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... never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived " ( 576 , 580 ) . Yet the mind has to conceive a plan of living ; it needs narrow borders to have vision at all . In this sense , the narrator includes himself in ...
... never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived " ( 576 , 580 ) . Yet the mind has to conceive a plan of living ; it needs narrow borders to have vision at all . In this sense , the narrator includes himself in ...
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
An Augustinian | 37 |
Literature of the Seventeenth Century | 97 |
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