Religion and modern literature : essays in theory and criticism /

Religion and modern literature : essays in theory and criticism / [print] edited by G. B. Tennyson and Edward E. Ericson, Jr. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans, (c)1975. - 424 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



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Religion and literature.

PN49.E68.R455 1975 PN49