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  • Theological and Philosophical Explorations of the Call of Literature

    Power of the Word VI

    Series series The Power of the Word
    This book explores the ‘call’ of literature, for both writers and their audiences, and reflects on how literary works have informed and drawn from – and continue to inform and draw from – theology, philosophy and sacred scripture. Key questions addressed include the following: How do creative writers and critics conceive this call? What does it mean to speak of a ‘vocation’ to write and what have ... Leer más

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  • Poetry and the Religious Imagination

    The Power of the Word

    Series series The Power of the Word
    What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, ... Leer más

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    A Very Short Introduction

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Leer más

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  • Escape from Reason

    Series series IVP Classics
    Over 100,000 Copies Sold!Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness.How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy?In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought and unpacks how key ideas have ... Leer más

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  • Comedy: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Matthew Bevis ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony? This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range ... Leer más

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  • Pieces of My Mind

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    de Frank Kermode ...
    A career-spanning collection of thought-provoking analyses from the renowned literary critic.Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of Shakespeare's ... Leer más

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  • Pleasing Myself

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    Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money. ... Leer más

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  • Lessons of the Masters

    A thought-provoking examination of the complex teacher-student relationship, from one of the great minds of the modern literary worldBased on George Steiner's extensive experience as a teacher, Lessons of the Masters is a passionate examination of the "profession of the professor." He writes about what empowers one person to teach another, and explores the complexities and nuances of this bond. ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Allegory

    Edición de Rita Copeland, Peter T. Struck ...
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    Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of ... Leer más

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  • A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

    With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century.Written in a clear and highly readable styleComprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present dayBroad intellectual and cultural rangeExpands on the previous edition to incorporate the most recent literary terminologyNew material is ... Leer más

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  • A New Handbook of Literary Terms

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