The philosopher and the storyteller
Subtitle: Eric Voegelin and twentieth-century literature
By: Charles R. Embry.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780826217905
Subjects: Voegelin, Eric, -- 1901-1985 -- Criticism and interpretation; Literature -- Philosophy; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: "Composed of wonders" : literature of the spirit; title: Part I. The philosopher: One of my permanent occupations" : Eric Voegelin as literary critic; The attunement of the soul" : Eric Voegelin's search of order; Writer, reader, and the adventure of participatory consciousness; title: Part II. The storyteller: The barren quest : Graham Swift's Waterland; "A secret between man and God" : second reality in Heimito von Doderer's The demons; Novel of divine presence : Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away; title: Epilogue: "Our love of life, children, our love of life."