The Present Word. Culture, Society and the Site of Literature
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781351191999
Subjects: Criticism; Culture; Philosophical theology; Critique; Théologie philosophique
Table of contents: title: Part, I Literature and Criticism --; title: chapter Introduction  -- John Walker; title: chapter 1 The Human Epiphany --; title: Reflections on Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale  -- Martin Swales; title: chapter 2 Cognitive Mapping: Adam, Venus, and Faust  -- John A. McCarthy; title: chapter 3 Goethe as Secular Icon  -- T.J. Reed; title: chapter 4 A Poem by August Wilhelm Schlegel --; title: 'Zueignung des Trauerspiels Romeo und Julia'  -- Roger Paulin; title: chapter 5 Mignon and the Idea of the Secret  -- Charlotte Lee; title: chapter 6 Goethe and Mörike: 'Urworte. Orphisch' and 'Besuch in Urach'  -- Regina Sachers; title: chapter 7 'Short of History': Les Murray and the Communion of Saints  -- Ian Cooper; title: chapter 8 Ways of Knowing --; title: Blaise Pascal, Angelus Silesius and Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg  -- Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly; title: chapter 9 Enlightened Mythology: Thomas Mann and Myth  -- Christoph Jamme; title: chapter 10 Goethe's Faust, Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and the Site of Literature  -- John Walker; title: part, II Philosophy, Theology and the University --; title: chapter 11 Goethe and Machiavelli  -- Ritchie Robertson; title: chapter 12 'Just one damned thing after another'? Some Reflections on the Philosophy of History  -- H.B. Nisbet; title: chapter 13 Seven Types of Forgetting  -- Paul Connerton; title: chapter 14 Seamus Heaney and Catholicism  -- Eamon Duffy; title: chapter 15 Christian Humanism and Higher Education  -- Mark Ogden; title: chapter Postscript -- Nicholas Boyle.