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The Absence of God in Modernist Literature

By Gregory Erickson

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1403977585, 9781403977588, 9780230604261
Open Library ID
OL22754980M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
711 kB (728072 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
244\245
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book combines literary criticism, postmodern theology, philosophy, and musicology in a rethinking of the relationship of modernist literature and religion. Erickson argues that theological modes of thinking are ingrained in the very roots of our metaphysical assumptions, and are impossible to escape, even and especially in the skeptical and experimental woks of modernism.  By concentrating on moments of difficulty and ambiguity in works such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron, the book identifies the paradoxical construction of a god-idea buried in the tropes and metaphors of each text.

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