Innocence Uncovered (eBook, ePUB)

Literary and Theological Perspectives
Redaktion: Dodd, Elizabeth; Findley III, Carl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a critical overview of key issues and historical developments in the concept of innocence, delving into its ambivalences and exploring within literature and theology. This interdisciplinary collection discusses major symbols and themes surrounding innocence, including purity and sexuality, childhood and inexperience, nostalgia and utopianism, morality and virtue. This book examines the significance of innocence as both a concept and a word, revealing how innocence has progressed through centuries of dramatic alterations, secularizations and subversions, while retaining an enduring relevance as a key concept in human thought, experience, and imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315442549
• Artikelnr.: 45971380

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth S. Dodd is Programme Leader for Postgraduate Common Awards programmes at Sarum College, Salisbury, and Assistant Programme Leader for the MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture. She has been an academic tutor for ministry training through STETS and Sarum College since 2012, after completing her doctorate on Thomas Traherne at Cambridge University, supervised by Professor David Ford. She has published a monograph entitled Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology (Ashgate, September 2015) and a forthcoming essay collection on Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth Century Thought with Cassandra Gorman (D.S. Brewer). Her main research interests are in literature and theology, particularly seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry and the theme of innocence in Christian literature. She also has an interest in theological aesthetics, in particular the uses of genre theory and the public role of the lyric voice in theology, and is currently working on a project on that topic for T&T Clark. Carl Findley received his Ph.D. from The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at The University of Chicago. His research and publications (including works on Musil, Schiller, and Dostoevsky as well as contemporary Austrian writers) explore the labile borders that ideas traverse, probing diverse literary traditions and the translation of theoretical forms into avant-garde literary practices. His work interrogates the relationship between ideas and bodies, and the aesthetic and ethical possibilities from the collapse of intellectual practices, religious paradigms, and gendered realities in 19th and 20th Century Austrian, German, Russian, and American novels. He is Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Interdisciplinary Studies and Great Books at Mercer University and is currently completing a book entitled, The Secular Moment: Second Innocence and Aesthetic Tyranny in Robert Musil.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Carl E. Findley III
1 Affirmation and Negation: The Semantic Paradox at the Heart of Innocence
Elizabeth S. Dodd
2 The Innocence of George Macdonald
John de Jong
3 The Seduction of Innocence: Erotic Aesthetics from Kierkegaard to
Decadentism
Michael Subialka
4 The Repentance of Language: Geoffrey Hill, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and
Poetic Integrity
Devon Abts
5 Imaginative Innocence and Conscious Utopia in Robert Musil's The Man
Without Qualities
Carl E. Findley III
6 The Innocences of Revolution: Failed Utopias and Nostalgic Longings in
Evgenii Zamyatin's We and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Heart of a Dog
Christopher Carr
7 A.I. - Artificial Intelligence: Genealogies of the Posthuman Child
Robert A. Davis
8 Can There Be Innocence After Failure?
Ben Quash
9 Moral Innocence as the Negative Counterpart to Moral Maturity
Zachary J. Goldberg
Afterword
Elizabeth S. Dodd and Carl E. Findley III