Research Catalog

Title

Religion and modern literature : essays in theory and criticism / edited by G.B. Tennyson and Edward E. Ericson, Jr.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Eerdmans [1975]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tennyson, G. B.
• Ericson, Edward E.

Description

424 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Religion and literature
• Literatur
• Religion
• Aufsatzsammlung

Genre/Form

• essays.
• Literary criticism.
• Essays.
• Essais.
• Critiques littéraires.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part I. Relationships between religion and literature -- Religion and literature / T.S. Eliot -- Literature and religion / J. Hillis Miller -- Christianity and literature / C.S. Lewis -- Hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes / R.W.B. Lewis -- Novelist and believer / Flannery O'Connor -- Literature and belief / David Daiches -- The relation of theology to literary criticism / Roy W. Battenhouse -- The moral evaluation of literature / Frederick Pottle -- Christian literary scholars / Joseph H. Summers -- Postscript : Christianity and art / W.H. Auden -- Part II. Religious backgrounds of modern literature -- The name and nature of our period-style / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- Modern literature and the death of God / Charles I. Glicksberg -- Three images of man / Edmund Fuller -- An awareness of solitude / Stuart Barton Babbage -- The decline of the novel / Edwin Muir -- The changing pattern : contrasts in medieval and modern poetry / Martin Turnell -- The loss of the histrionic and the modern quandary of theology / Tom F. Driver -- Part III. Religious dimensions in modern literature -- Franz Kafka : the atheist's problem of God / Gabriel Vahanian -- Christ as tragic hero : Conrad's Lord Jim / Edwin Moseley -- Camus' Sisyphean hero / David Anderson -- D.H. Lawrence : the quarrel with Christianity / Graham Hough -- William Butler Yeats : the religion of a poet / Austin Warren -- T.S. Eliot : from Ash Wednesday to Murder in the cathedral / R.P. Blackmur -- Mr. W.H. Auden : towards a new Christian synthesis / Amos Wilder -- William Faulkner : vision of good and evil / Cleanth Brooks -- A ritual of transfiguration : The old man and the sea / Arvin R. Wells -- Religious aspects in the novels of Graham Greene / A.A. DeVitis -- Ignazio Silone and the pseudonyms of God / Robert McAfee Brown -- Lord of the flies : the power of Beelzebub / Paul Elmen -- Being and waiting : the question of Godot / Frederick J. Hoffman -- Flannery O'Connor / Robert Drake -- Morte D'Urban : two celebrations / Thomas Merton.

ISBN

• 0802834590
• 9780802834591
• 0802815781 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

74013237

OCLC

• ocm00980298
• 980298
• SCSB-159765

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library