Augustine And Literature
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Introduction
Robert P. Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody, And Marylu Hill
Literature To The Sixteenth Century
The Weight Of Love: Augustinian Metaphors Of Movement In Dante’s Souls
Phillip Cary
“Se Onne Isne Wealsteal Wise Ge Ohte”: An Augustinian Reading Of The Early English Meditation “The Wanderer”
Mary Agnes Edsall
“There’s A Divinity That Shapes Our Ends”: An Augustinian Reading Of Hamlet
Eric Plumer
Literature Of The Seventeenth Century
St. Augustine And The Metaphysical Poets
Barry L. Craig
Eloquence For The Age Of Enlightenment: Fenelon’s Saint Augustine
Christine A. Jones
Justifying The Ways Of God And Man: Theodicy In Augustine And Milton
John Savoie
Nineteenth Century Literature
The Senescence Of The World: Augustine’s Idea Of History And Ibsen’s Emperor And Galilean
Thomas F. Bertonneau
“Descend That You May Ascend”: Augustine, Dostoevsky, And The Confessions Of Ivan Karamazov
Paul J. Contino
“Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me”: Eucharist And The Erotic Body In Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market
Marylu Hill
“Words, Those Precious Cups Of Meaning”: Augustine’s Influence On The Thought And Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.
Emily Taylor Merriman
A Season In Hell, Or The Confessions Of Arthur Rimbaud
Glenn Moulaison
Feminine Wisdom In Augustine And Goethe’s Faust
Kim Paffenroth
Twentieth Century Literature
Faulkner’s Augustinian Sense Of Time
Seemee Ali
Augustinian Physicality And The Rhetoric Of The Grotesque In The Art Of Flannery O’Connor
Debra Romanick Baldwin
Marking The Frontiers Of World War II With “Stabilized Disorder”: Rebecca West Reads St. Augustine
Mary Anne Schofield
Confessional Ethics In Augustine And Ralph Ellison
Mark Shiffman
Additional Info
The influence of Christianity on literature has been great throughout history, as has been the influence of the great Christian, Augustine. Augustine and Literature considers the influence of Augustine on the theory and practice of an academic discipline of which he himself was not a practitioner-literature, especially poetry and fiction. The essays in this volume explore the many influences of Augustine on literature, most obviously in terms of themes and symbols, but also more pervasively perhaps in proving that literature strives for meaning through and beyond the fictional or metaphorical surface. The authors discussed in these essays, from Dante and Milton to O’Connor and Faulkner, all demonstrate a common concern that literature must be attentive to the highest things and the deepest journeys of the soul. Together these essays offer a compelling argument that literature and Augustine do belong together in the common task of guiding the soul toward the truth it desires.
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SKU (ISBN): 9780739109137
ISBN10: 0739109138
Editor: Robert Kennedy | Editor: Kim Paffenroth | Editor: John Doody
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: January 2006
Publisher: Sheed & Ward
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