Literary paths to religious understanding: essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White

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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62147-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés