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A poetics of Jesus : the search for Christ through writing in the nineteenth century / Jeffrey F. Keuss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keuss, Jeffrey F., 1965-
- Series:
- Ashgate new critial thinking in theology & biblical studies.
- Ashgate new critial thinking in theology & biblical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--in literature.
- Jesus Christ.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Religion.
- Eliot, George.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Poetics.
- Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Writing and Jesus
- An Elective Affinity 1
- Chapter Summaries 12
- 1 Christology as Writing into Rupture 19
- 2 Augustine and the Form of the Subject in/of the Imago Dei 37
- 3 Poetics of the Subject and the Sacred into the Nineteenth Century 45
- Friedrich Schiller and the Mythos of the Human Spirit 47
- Friedrich Holderlin and Empedokles 49
- Goethe and the Morphological Bildung in Wilhelm Meister's Lebrjahre 52
- Hegel and the Unwriting of the Self 63
- 4 Theological Poetics of Jesus Amidst Nineteenth Century Higher Criticism 71
- F.C. Baur and the "Universal yet Particular" Christ of Church History 72
- Ludwig Feuerbach and The Essence of Christianity 75
- David Friedrich Strauss and Mythi in Das Leben Jesu 79
- 5 Victorian Poetics and (Re)Writing Jesus 91
- Figuring Jesus in the Victorian Novel 94
- J.A. Froude
- The Nemesis of Faith 102
- Walter Pater
- Marius the Epicurean 112
- Mrs. Humphrey Ward
- Robert Elsmere 119
- 6 Scenes of Clerical Life
- Images under Erasure 131
- Heidegger Reads Eliot
- the "Possible" of Poetics 137
- 7 Adam Bede
- Poetics of the Possible and Learning to "See" 151
- Iconographic Reading
- Chapter XVII and Dutch Realism 153
- (Wo)men in the Garden 160
- A Poetics of Jesus in Adam Bede 164
- 8 The Mill on the Floss
- Transfigurational Writing as Incarnation 173
- The Bildung of Organicism and a Poetics of Jesus 175
- Imitatio Jesus/Imitatio Maggie
- Writing into Transfigurational Flowing 183
- Conclusion: A Poetic Cartography of Grace 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754606279
- OCLC:
- 48571383
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