Regina Mara Schwartz

Gebundenes Buch

Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism

When God Left the World

Beschreibung

This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery.

Autor

Regina Mara Schwartz is Professor of English at Northwestern University, where she teaches literature, religion, and law. She is the author of Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and Poetics (1988), winner of the James Holly Hanford Book Award, and The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780804756679
• ISBN-10: 0804756678
• Artikelnr.: 23414085