Play, Literature, Religion - Essays in Cultural Intertextuality

By using the concept of play as a common denominator, this book outlines ways in which literary creativity can act as a free, open, and speculatively unburdened version of religious concerns. Contributors include Louis Dupré, Arthur Quinn, Sanford Budick, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Judah Goldin, and Jean-Michel Heimonet.

About the author

Virgil Nemoianu is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of A Theory of the Secondary; Literature, Progress and Reaction; and The Hospitable Canon, as well as coeditor of Essays on Literary Play, Scholarly Choice and Popular Pressures with Robert Royal. Robert Royal is Vice President for Research and John M. Olin Fellow in Religion and Society at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. He is coeditor of A Century of Catholic Social Thought with George Weigel.

Product details

• Assisted by: Virgil Nemoianu (Editor), Robert Royal (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1992
• EAN: 9780791409350
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0935-0
• No. of pages: 221
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy; SUNY series in Philosophy; Suny Series, the Margins of Li
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity