John Walker

The Present Word. Culture, Society and the Site of Literature

Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reflects the three major emphases of Nicholas Boyle's intellectual life â literature, philosophical theology, and social and cultural criticism â and the distinctive emphasis of his approach to all three.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 246mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780367601782
• ISBN-10: 0367601788
• Artikelnr.: 68321500

Autorenporträt

John Walker

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Literature and Criticism 1. The Human Epiphany:
Reflections on Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Shakespeare's the Winter's
Tale 2. Cognitive Mapping: Adam, Venus, and Faust 3. Goethe as Secular Icon
4. A Poem by August Wilhelm Schlegel: Zueignung des Trauerspiels Romeo und
Julia' 5. Mignon and the Idea of the Secret 6. Goethe and Mörike: 'Urworte.
Orphisch' and 'Besuch in Urach' 7. Short of History': Les Murray and the
Communion of Saints 8. Ways of Knowing: Blaise Pascal, Angelus Silesius and
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg 9. Enlightened Mythology: Thomas Mann and
Myth 10. Goethe's Faust, Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and the Site of
Literature Part II: Philosophy, Theology and the University 11. Goethe and
Machiavelli 12. Just one damned thing after another'? Some Reflections on
the Philosophy of History 13. Seven Types of Forgetting 14. Seamus Heaney
and Catholicism 15. Christian Humanism and Higher Education 16. Postscript