Literary Paths to Religious Understanding [electronic resource] : Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White /
Atkins, G.author.
This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prefatory Essay; Introduction: ""The hint half guessed, the gift half understood""; 1 Essaying the Via Media: John Dryden's Religio Laici and Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man; 2 ""A grander scheme of salvation than the chryst&#lt; e&#gt; ain religion"": John Keats, a New Religion of Love, and the Hoodwinking of ""The Eve of St. Agnes""; 3 George Eliot's ""Layman's Faith"": The Lyrical Essay-Novel Adam Bede; 4 Priests of Eternal Imagination: Literature and Religion-The Instance of James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
5 Journey toward Understanding: T.S. Eliot and the Progress of the ""Intelligent Believer""6 ""Religious feeling without religious images"": E.B. White's Essays and the Poetics of Participation; 7 Religio Criticae: An Essay on Reception and Response; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.
Poetry.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature—History and criticism.
Linguistics.
Religion—Philosophy.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Literary History.
Linguistics, general.
Philosophy of Religion.