Sacramental Poetics At the Dawn of Secularism - When God Left the World

Zusatztext "Many others have studied this movement from ritual to the arts, from the sacrament to the sacramental, but rarely with the literary sensitivity shown here." Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Regina Schwartz, Regina M. Schwartz, Regina Mara Schwartz
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2008
• EAN: 9780804756679
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5667-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies