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The sacred and secular canon in romanticism : preserving the sacred truths / David Jasper.

LIBRA PR457 .J37 1999
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Jasper, David.
Series:
Romanticism in perspective
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature.
German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
German literature.
Religion and literature--History--19th century.
Religion and literature.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Romanticism.
History.
Great Britain.
Holy, The, in literature.
Romanticism--Germany.
Germany.
Bible--In literature.
Bible.
Romanticism in art.
Local Subjects:
Bible--In literature.
Romanticism in art.
Romanticism--Germany.
Holy, The, in literature.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Religion and literature--History--19th century.
German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Physical Description:
x, 158 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Basingstoke : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Summary:
This book focuses on some of the greatest writers and artists of European Romanticism, including S. T. Coleridge, Wordsworth, J. M. W. Turner, Goethe, Holderlin and, in the later nineteenth century, Matthew Arnold. Concluding with a discussion of the significance of Romanticism for our understanding of postmodernity, its various chapters explore the place of the biblical canon as the central element in the shift from the sacred to the secular, and the place of the Bible in the development of our concept of Weltliteratur, or world literature, as definitive of culture. This book will be of interest to all concerned with art, literature and the development of biblical criticism and religious thought.
Contents:
Mediator Between Old and New World
Living Powers: Sacred and Secular Language
Hölderlin and Holy Scripture
Light and Darkness: J.M.W. Turner and the Bible
Weltliteratur and the Bible Critics
Matthew Arnold: Between Two Worlds
The Death and Rebirth of Religious Language.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-152) and index.
ISBN:
0312216734
0333698223
0333714903
OCLC:
38964041

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