The central themes of this collection of essays are the mystery of time past, present and future, and the problem of redemption. They are concerned with modern literature, with the threat of meaninglessness in the postmodern condition, and with the possibility of salvation. In an age of deferral and difference, this book addresses itself to eschatology and apocalypse, and redemption in, through, but particularly of, time itself. Hell and madness are never far away, yet the refiguration of time and the breaking in of the transcendent continue to suggest theological possibilities beyond the…mehr
The central themes of this collection of essays are the mystery of time past, present and future, and the problem of redemption. They are concerned with modern literature, with the threat of meaninglessness in the postmodern condition, and with the possibility of salvation. In an age of deferral and difference, this book addresses itself to eschatology and apocalypse, and redemption in, through, but particularly of, time itself. Hell and madness are never far away, yet the refiguration of time and the breaking in of the transcendent continue to suggest theological possibilities beyond the wastelands of the twentieth century. To those possibilities we look in hope.
General Editor's Preface Introduction List of the Contributors Music, Madness and Mephistopheles: Art and Nihilism in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus; G.Pattison The Appropriation of Dostoevsky in the Early Twentieth Century: Cult, Counter cult and Incarnation; C.Crowder After Apocalypse: Some Elements in Late Lawrence; D.Mackenzie Wyndham Lewis on Time; M.Jarrett Kerr,Cr Re writing The Waste Land; M.Edwards T.S.Eliot: Poetry, Silence and the Vision of God; P.Walker The Very Dead of Winter: Notes Towards an Enquiry into English Poetry after Eliot; M.Alexander Visions of Hell: Lowry and Beckett; F.Doherty Samuel Beckett's Negative Way: Intimations of the `Via Negativa' in His Late Plays; M.Buning Redemption and Narrative: Refiguration of Time in Postmodern Literature; I.Makarushka Apocalyptic Fiction and the End(s) of Realism; R.Detweiler Index
General Editor's Preface Introduction List of the Contributors Music, Madness and Mephistopheles: Art and Nihilism in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus; G.Pattison The Appropriation of Dostoevsky in the Early Twentieth Century: Cult, Counter cult and Incarnation; C.Crowder After Apocalypse: Some Elements in Late Lawrence; D.Mackenzie Wyndham Lewis on Time; M.Jarrett Kerr,Cr Re writing The Waste Land; M.Edwards T.S.Eliot: Poetry, Silence and the Vision of God; P.Walker The Very Dead of Winter: Notes Towards an Enquiry into English Poetry after Eliot; M.Alexander Visions of Hell: Lowry and Beckett; F.Doherty Samuel Beckett's Negative Way: Intimations of the `Via Negativa' in His Late Plays; M.Buning Redemption and Narrative: Refiguration of Time in Postmodern Literature; I.Makarushka Apocalyptic Fiction and the End(s) of Realism; R.Detweiler Index
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