The poets' Jesus
Subtitle: representations at the end of a millennium
By: Peggy Rosenthal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781423763055; 9780198030041
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Christian poetry; In literature; Jesus Christ; TRAVEL; Poetry; Special Interest; Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM; Religious poetry; General
Description: Poets have always been the medium through which a culture talks of, and to, its gods. Despite the 20th century's self-definition as a secular and post-Christian epoch, this text shows it has produced poetry about Jesus of surprising quality and variety.
Notes: Includes index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; ONE: Jesus as Christ and More: The First Eighteen Centuries; TWO: Jesus as Romantic Hero; THREE: Sliding into Modernism: Jesus Pale and Shrunken; FOUR: Crisis of the Secularized West: Postmodernism's Jesus as Antihero; FIVE: Crucified Africa: The Politicized Jesus of Africa and Beyond; SIX: Archetypal Christ: Arabic Poetry and Other Wastelands; SEVEN: Jesus Absent; EIGHT: Between Absence and Presence: Playing Around with Jesus; NINE: Jesus Present; Notes; Permissions Acknowledgments; Notes on the Artists; Index.