Augustine and literature
Robert P. Kennedy (Editor), Kim Paffenroth (Editor), John Doody (Editor)
The influence of Christianity on literature has been great throughout history, as has been the influence of the great Christian Augustine. This book explores Augustine's influence on literature from the Middle Ages and discusses the implications of expressing Augustine's religious themes both in literature and in theological works.
vi, 414 pages ; 24 cm.
9780739109137, 9780739113844, 0739109138, 0739113844
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The weight of love: Augustinian metaphors of movement in Dante's souls / Phillip Cary
"Se þonne þisne wealsteal wise geþohte": an Augustinian reading of the early English meditation the Wanderer / Mary Agnes Edsall
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends": an Augustinian reading of Hamlet / Eric Plumer
St. Augustine and the metaphysical poets / Barry L. Craig
Eloquence for the age of enlightenment: Fénelon's St. Augustine / Christine A. Jones
Justifying the ways of God and man: theodicy in Augustine and Milton / John Savoie
The senescence of the world: Augustine's idea of history and Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean / Thomas F. Bertonneau
"Descend that you may ascend": Augustine, Dostoevsky, and the confessions of Ivan Karamazov / Paul J. Contino
"Eat me, drink me, love me": Eucharist and the erotic body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market / Marylu Hill
"Words, those precious cups of meaning": Augustine's influence on the thought and poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. / Emily Taylor Merriman
A season in hell, or the Confessions of Arthur Rimbaud / Glenn Moulaison
Feminine wisdom in Augustine and Goethe's Faust / Kim Paffenroth
Faulkner's Augustinian sense of time / Seemee Ali
Augustinian physicality and the rhetoric of the grotesque in the art of Flannery O'Connor / Debra Romanick Baldwin
Marking the frontiers of World War II with "stabilized disorder": Rebecca West reads St. Augustine / Mary Anne Schofield
Confessional ethics in Augustine and Ralph Ellison / Mark Shiffman