Webb, Eugene, 1938-

The dark dove : the sacred and secular in modern literature / by Eugene Webb. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)1975. - 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages)



The paradox of the sacred -- The tradition of the sacred in the West -- The ambiguities of secularization : modern transformations of the Kingdom in Nietzsche, Ibsen, Beckett, and Stevens -- The one and the many : the ambiguous challenge of being in the poetry of Yeats and Rilke -- A darkness shining in brightness : James Joyce and the obscure soul of the world -- The perilous journey to wholeness in Thomas Mann -- The way up and the way down : the redemption of time in T.S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" and Four quartets -- W.H. Auden : the ambiguity of the sacred -- Conclusion.



9780295805252


Holy, The, in literature.


Electronic Books.

PN49 / .D375 1975