Czeslaw Milosz''s Faith in the Flesh - Body, Belief, and Human Identity

A study of the writings of Polish laureate Czes¿aw Mi¿osz perspectives on transcendence and religious belief in a secular age through creative engagement with sensual or material experience.

List of contents

• Introduction: The Mystery of the Body


• 1: Beyond the Body: Reinventing Transcendence


• 2: The Totalitarian Self: Consciousness in the Trap of the Body


• 3: The Embodied Self: Corporeal Sources of Religious Experience


• 4: The Fluid Self: Woman, Body, and the Flesh of the World


• 5: Poetry and the Body: The Meaning of Rhythm and the Rhythm of Meaning


• Conclusion: Belief in the Body

About the author

Stanley Bill is Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge. He works on twentieth-century Polish literature and culture, and on contemporary politics in Poland. He has published articles on populism and civil society, postcolonial theory in the Polish context, legacies of Polish Romanticism, and the works of Czesław Miłosz, Bruno Schulz, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. His translation of Miłosz's novel The Mountains of Parnassus was published by Yale University Press in 2017. He is founder and editor-at-large of the news and opinion website Notes from Poland.

Summary

A study of the writings of Polish laureate Czeslaw Milosz perspectives on transcendence and religious belief in a secular age through creative engagement with sensual or material experience.

Additional text

The volume is a welcome contribution to the field of Miłosz studies and will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of Miłosz and religion, as well as those interested in twentieth-century literature, secularisation and the post-secular.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Bill, Stanley (Associate Professor in Polish Studi Bill, Stanley (Associate Professor in Polish Studies Bill, Stanley (Senior Lecturer in Polish Studies Bill, Bill Stanley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780192844392
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284439-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, RELIGION / Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Philosophy of religion, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets