- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Literary Criticism
Full Description
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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Literature to the Sixteenth Century Chapter 3 The Weight of Love: Augustinian Metaphors of Movement in Dante's Souls Chapter 4 "Se ponne pisne Wealsteal Wise Gepohte": An Augustinian Reading of the Early English Meditation "The Wanderer" Chapter 5 "There's a Divinity That Shapes Our Ends": An Augustinian Reading of Hamlet Part 6 Literature of the Seventeenth Century Chapter 7 St. Augustine and the Metaphysical Poets Chapter 8 Eloquence for the Age of Enlightenment: Fénelon's Saint Augustine Chapter 9 Justifying the Ways of God and Man: Theodicy in Augustine and Milton Part 10 Nineteenth Century Literature Chapter 11 The Senescence of the World: Augustine's Idea of History and Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean Chapter 12 "Descend That You May Ascend": Augustine, Dostoevsky, and the Confessions of Ivan Karamazov Chapter 13 "Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me": Eucharist and the Erotic Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market Chapter 14 "Words, Those Precious Cups of Meaning": Augustine's Influence on the Thought and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Chapter 15 A Season in Hell, or the Confessions of Arthur Rimbaud Chapter 16 Feminine Wisdom in Augustine and Goethe's Faust Part 17 Twentieth Century Literature Chapter 18 Faulkner's Augustinian Sense of Time Chapter 19 Augustinian Physicality and the Rhetoric of the Grotesque in the Art of Flannery O'Connor Chapter 20 Marking the Frontiers of World War II with "Stabilized Disorder": Rebecca West Reads St. Augustine Chapter 21 Confessional Ethics in Augustine and Ralph Ellison
