Poetry and apocalypse
Subtitle: theological disclosures of poetic language
By: William Franke.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780804759106
Subjects: Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism; Christian poetry -- History and criticism; Epic poetry -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- History; Negative theology -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Apocalypse and the breaking-open of dialogue : a critical negative theology of poetic language; title: Linguistic repetition as theological revelation in Christian epic tradition from Dante to Joyce; title: Typological re-origination and the theological vocation of poetry : how to read Finnegans wake as the culmination of Christian epic; title: On the possibility of a poetics of revelation today : from apocalyptic theology to postmodern negative theology.