Dynamics of Desacralization: Disenchanted Literary Talents
The idea of desacralization has become almost commonplace, attributing to the word the rejection of what is sacred. One might think that it is strictly connected to theology and its system, or suppose that it implies the relationship human beings have with anything that can express a denial of the spiritual part of life. The concept of desacralization has numerous meanings, either from a philosophical or a literary viewpoint. The scholars' investigation of Dynamics of Desacralization has made this collection of essays rich and varied, revealing new worlds the different authors have created. What they do is to narrate various types of desacralization interrogating the nature of novels, poems or works of art; certain aspects of being are revealed through various expressions, engaging the multiple levels and the meaning of desacralization providing an articulation and interpretation of it.
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Dynamics of Desacralization: Disenchanted Literary Talents
The idea of desacralization has become almost commonplace, attributing to the word the rejection of what is sacred. One might think that it is strictly connected to theology and its system, or suppose that it implies the relationship human beings have with anything that can express a denial of the spiritual part of life. The concept of desacralization has numerous meanings, either from a philosophical or a literary viewpoint. The scholars' investigation of Dynamics of Desacralization has made this collection of essays rich and varied, revealing new worlds the different authors have created. What they do is to narrate various types of desacralization interrogating the nature of novels, poems or works of art; certain aspects of being are revealed through various expressions, engaging the multiple levels and the meaning of desacralization providing an articulation and interpretation of it.
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Dynamics of Desacralization: Disenchanted Literary Talents

Dynamics of Desacralization: Disenchanted Literary Talents

Dynamics of Desacralization: Disenchanted Literary Talents

Dynamics of Desacralization: Disenchanted Literary Talents

Overview

The idea of desacralization has become almost commonplace, attributing to the word the rejection of what is sacred. One might think that it is strictly connected to theology and its system, or suppose that it implies the relationship human beings have with anything that can express a denial of the spiritual part of life. The concept of desacralization has numerous meanings, either from a philosophical or a literary viewpoint. The scholars' investigation of Dynamics of Desacralization has made this collection of essays rich and varied, revealing new worlds the different authors have created. What they do is to narrate various types of desacralization interrogating the nature of novels, poems or works of art; certain aspects of being are revealed through various expressions, engaging the multiple levels and the meaning of desacralization providing an articulation and interpretation of it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783847103868
Publisher: V&R unipress
Publication date: 01/28/2015
Series: Passages - Transitions - Intersections , #1
Pages: 179
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Paola Partenza teaches English Literature at the University of Pescara-Chieti (Italy).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

"The Stylistic Desacralization of Man in Britain in the [Sophia] Pamphlets (1739-1740)" Guyonne Leduc 13

Desacralizing the Sign: Tooke, Stewart and Romantic Materialism Christopher Stokes 37

Satire, Sentiment and Desacralization: The Relic and the Commodity in Jane Austen's Novels Barbara M. Benedict 53

Alfred Tennyson's De-sacralization of the Afterlife Paola Partenza 71

Seeking "the Beyond": Desacralising/Resacralising Nature in Richard Jefferies Roger Ebbatson 91

An Earthy Sacredness: Maupassant's and Van Gogh's Christianized Materialism John Fawell 103

Displacement-Distortion Theory and the Desacralisation of Aesthetic Categories: the Case Study of Hardy's "Neutral Tones" Simona Beccone 123

Geoffrey Hill's Serpents and Dragons Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec 151

"Morpho Eugenia": The Individual Struggle for Self-Realisation and the Question of Morality in a Darwinian World Without God Esra Melikoglu 163

Notes on Contributors 177

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