Research Catalog

Title

The new Orpheus; essays toward a Christian poetic.

Publication

New York, Sheed and Ward [1964]

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Details

Additional Authors

Scott, Nathan A.

Description

xiv, 431 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Treats in relation between Christianity and art in general as well as Christian thought in literature.

Subject

• Christianity in literature
• Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Christianity and literature
• Literature > Theory, etc
• Christendom
• Letterkunde
• Christelijke literatuur

Genre/Form

• Literature.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 420-431.

Contents

Towards a Christian aesthetic / Dorothy Sayers -- Art and sacrament / David Jones -- Denis de Rougemont / Religion and the mission of the artist / Denis de Rougemont -- Postscript: Christianity and art / W.H. Auden -- The writer as Christian / Malcolm Ross -- The symbolic imagination : the mirrors of Dante / Allen Tate -- The theological imagination / William F. Lynch -- The modern experiment in criticism : a theological appraisal / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- Criticism and theological standards / Vincent Buckley -- The autonomy of the work of art : modern criticism and the Christian tradition / G. Ingli James -- The Jinnee in the well-wrought urn / Walter J. Ong -- Religion and literature / T.S. Eliot -- Poetry and morals : a relation reargued / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. -- A Christian theory of dramatic tragedy / Preston T. Roberts, Jr. -- Comedy / Christopher Fry -- Truth and the art of the novel / D.S. Savage -- Poetry and crisis / Martin Turnell -- The finality of the drama / Gabriel Marcel -- Theological reflections on cinema / Harvey G. Cox -- The death of the imagination / Elizabeth Sewell -- The image of man in modern European literature / Charles Moeller -- Art and theological meaning / Amos N. Wilder.

LCCN

64013566

OCLC

• ocm00325710
• 325710
• SCSB-159760

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library