Augustine and LiteratureRobert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody 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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... Divine Comedy or Rousseau's Confessions or Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man be without the example that Augustine sets in his own Confessions ? The idea that telling one's own story might lead to a deeper inner truth , and ...
... Divine Comedy or Rousseau's Confessions or Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man be without the example that Augustine sets in his own Confessions ? The idea that telling one's own story might lead to a deeper inner truth , and ...
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... divine truth , then of necessity we will tell them differ- ently than we would if we only wished to entertain or deceive . However , this still does not seem to solve the problem of fiction itself , for how can fiction , by its very ...
... divine truth , then of necessity we will tell them differ- ently than we would if we only wished to entertain or deceive . However , this still does not seem to solve the problem of fiction itself , for how can fiction , by its very ...
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... Divine Comedy . For Dante as well as Augustine , “ my love is my weight " is a principle of movement that explains how souls rise to heaven as well as fall to earth - either aflame with the fire of charity or dragged down by the ...
... Divine Comedy . For Dante as well as Augustine , “ my love is my weight " is a principle of movement that explains how souls rise to heaven as well as fall to earth - either aflame with the fire of charity or dragged down by the ...
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... divine prove- nance of human sexuality in all its beauty and energy ; and to acknowledge the artistic skill , emotional power , and cultural worth of pagan poetry . Milton ar- rives at these different emphases through Augustine in such ...
... divine prove- nance of human sexuality in all its beauty and energy ; and to acknowledge the artistic skill , emotional power , and cultural worth of pagan poetry . Milton ar- rives at these different emphases through Augustine in such ...
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Contents
The Weight of Love Augustinian Metaphors of Movement in Dantes Souls | 13 |
Se ponne pisne Wealsteal Wise Gepohte An Augustinian Reading of the Early English Meditation the Wanderer | 35 |
Theres a Divinity That Shapes Our Ends An Augustinian Reading of Hamlet | 61 |
St Augustine and the Metaphysical Poets | 95 |
Eloquence for the Age of Enlightenment Fenelons St Augustine | 115 |
Justifying the Ways of God and Man Theodicy in Augustine and Milton | 137 |
The Senescence of the World Augustines Idea of History and Ibsens Emperor and Galilean | 155 |
Descend That You May Ascend Augustine Dostoevsky and the Confessions of Ivan Karamazov | 177 |
Feminine Wisdom in Augustine and Goethes Faust | 269 |
13 Faulkners Augustinian Sense of Time | 285 |
Augustinian Physicality and the Rhetoric of the Grotesque in the Art of Flannery OConnor | 299 |
Marking the Frontiers of World War II with Stabilized Disorder Rebecca West Reads St Augustine | 325 |
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Bibliography | 359 |
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Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Eucharist and the Erotic Body In Christina Rossettis Goblin Market | 213 |
Words Those Precious Cups of Meaning Augustines influence on the Thought and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ | 231 |
A Season in Hell or the Confessions of Arthur Rimbaud | 253 |
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