Modernism, Christianity, and apocalypse
By: edited by Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, David Addyman
Contributors: Fiddes, Paul S.
Series: Studies in religion and the arts -- VOLUME 8; Studies in religion and the arts -- v. 8.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789004278264; 9789004282285
Subjects: History and criticism; Modernism (Christian theology); Apocalyptic literature
Description: Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of 'Modernism and Christianity' and 'Apocalypse Studies'. The modernist impulse to 'make it new', to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the 'new', but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization. In three sections tracing a rough chronology from the late nineteenth century fin de siècle, via interwar conflicts and the rise of 'political religions', to post-1945 anxieties such as the Bomb, this thematic is explored in nineteen far-ranging scholarly contributions, outlining a distinctive and fresh interdisciplinary field of study.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction / -- Erik Tonning -- Part 1.; title: Christianity, modernist culture, and visions of apocalypse -- -- 1.; title: Versions of The wasteland : the sense of an ending in theology and literature in the modern period  -- Paul S. Fiddles -- 2.; title: The cup of suffering : Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Discipleship and German expressionism  -- Jacob Phillips -- 3.; title: Christian prehistories of literary modernism in G.K. Chesterton and Allen Upward  -- Suzanne Hobson -- 4.; title: Modernist anti-modernists : T.E. Hulme, "split religion" and "the religious attitude"  -- Henry Mead -- 5.; title: Between the bang and the whimper : Eliot and apocalypse  -- Katherine Ebury -- 6.; title: Ezra Pound's eriugena : escatology in the Periphyseon and the Cantos  -- Mark Byron -- 7.; title: Péguy's apocalypse  -- Brian Sudlow -- Part 2.; title: Cultural transitions and political apocalypses, 1900-1945 -- -- 8.; title: The reason of nature : revolution of principles around 1900  -- Hans Ottomeyer -- 9.; title: Nazi modernism and the mobilisation of Christian artists in the Third Reich  -- Gregory Maertz -- 10.; title: James Strachey Barnes and the fascist revolution : Catholicism, anti-semitism and the international new order  -- Paul Jackson -- 11.; title: "Till Armageddon, no shalam, no shalom" : Ezra Pound and the consecration of politics in the Italian press during WWII  -- Andrea Rinaldi -- 12.; title: The moot, the end of civilisation and the re-birth of Christendom  -- Jonas Kurlberg -- 13.; title: Old dogmas for a new crisis : hell and incarnation in T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden  -- Erik Tonning -- 14.; title: Apocalypse deferred : W.H. Auden's anti-totalitarian vision  -- Hedda Lingaas Fossum -- Part 3.; title: Still waiting for the end? : post-World War II readings of apocalypse -- -- 15.; title: Ezra Pound's political faith from first to second generation : or, "is it 1956 fascism"  -- Matthew Feldman -- 16.; title: "Of what disaster is this the imminence" : "the auroras of autumn" and the Christian apocalypse  -- Benjamin Madden -- 17.; title: "History is done" : Thomas Merton's figures of apocalypse  -- Mary Bryden -- 18.; title: Apocalypse in early UFO and alien-based religions : Christian and theosophical themes  -- Carole M. Cusack -- 19.; title: The apocalyptic social imaginary -- Malise Ruthven-- Index.