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Muriel Spark, existentialism and the art of death
- Title
- Muriel Spark, existentialism and the art of death / Cairns Craig.
- Author
- Craig, Cairns
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- viii, 224 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Søren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations. Because of the prominence, after the Second World War, of the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, it is often forgotten that existentialism was originally a Christian philosophy, shaped by followers of Kierkegaard such as Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel. The author traces in Spark's writings both the influence of Kierkegaard and of Spark's resistance to Sartre's co-option of existentialism to an atheistic agenda. Kierkegaard's analysis of the nature of the "aesthetic" as a false mode of existence that has to be transcended by the ethical and then by the religious provides a fundamental structure for Spark's satirical analyses of the failings of the modern world.
- Subjects
- Spark, Muriel > Religion
- Themes, motives
- Spark, Muriel > Themes, motives
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 > Influence
- Christianity and existentialism in literature
- Christianity and existentialism
- Religion
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Spark, Muriel > Criticism and interpretation
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Living next door to death -- Resisting realism -- Kierkegaard: the limits of the aesthetic -- Negating Sartre -- Repetition -- The geopolitics of the personal -- The art of death -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7301
- ISBN
- 1474447201
- 9781474447201
- OCLC
- 1039936465
- Author
- Craig, Cairns, author.
- Title
- Muriel Spark, existentialism and the art of death / Cairns Craig.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7301