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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in religion |
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Routledge studies in religion.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Approaching the prophetic: orientations, ancient and modern -- 1 At the creative source of the arts: poetry as prophecy in a negative theological key -- 2 Isaiah: reading writing, re-voicing silent Israel -- 3 'Diversely and in many ways God spoke by the prophets': New Testament perspectives and the texts and images of William Blake on the 'prophetic word' -- 4 Poetry, prophecy and the angelic voice: reflections on the divine word |
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5 Prophecy and the poetic word -- Part II Prophecy in the critical lens of philosophy -- 6 Explanation, silence, and then poetry: Wittgenstein's poetic philosophy as a prophetic vision of life -- 7 The philosopher Empedocles as prophet and his reception by Freud -- 8 Prophecy and presence: reading the signs of the times with Jacques Ellul -- 9 Beyond the 'immanent frame': Charles Taylor as a reader of poetry -- Part III The prophetic in the witness of literature -- 10 John Clare's Romantic 'I': a prophetic poetics of testimony |
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11 Fearful Symmetry, seventy years on: Northrop Frye on William Blake -- 12 Czesław Miłosz and R.S. Thomas as prophetic voices of our time -- 13 When does a pilgrim become a prophet?: R.S. Thomas, 'This to do, ' and the shaping of a prophet -- 14 T.S. Eliot and Tadeusz Różewicz: the prophetic strain -- 15 The forerunners: St. John the Baptist and Lazarus in the poetry of T.S. Eliot -- Part IV Looking forward: framing the question of the prophetic in late modernity -- 16 The power of spiritual poetry in a secular world |
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17 "Nature is never spent"? The prophetic voice in contemporary Canadian ecological poetry -- 18 Prophecy as hope: interpreting the silence of Holy Saturday -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book explores the prophetic characteristics of literature, particularly poetry, that seek to reimagine the world in which it is written. Using theological and philosophical insights it charts the relentless impulse of literature to propose alternative visions, practicable or utopian, and point toward possibilities of renewal and change. Drawing from each of the three main Abrahamic religions, as well as Greek and Latin classics, an international group of scholars utilise a diverse range of analytical and interpretive methods to draw out the prophetic voice in poetry. Looking at the writings of figures like T. S. Elliot, Blake, Wittgenstein and Isaiah, the theme of the prophetic is shown to be of timely importance given the current state of geo-political challenges and uncertainties and offers a much-needed critical discussion of these broad cultural questions. This collection of essays offers readers an insight into the constructive power of literature. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars working in Religion and the Arts, Religious Studies, Theology and Aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher |
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Selected proceedings of the fifth "Power of the Word" international conference, which met in September, 2017, in Oxford |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Description based on print version record |
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Prophecy in literature -- Congresses
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Poetry -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Religion and literature -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature.
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RELIGION -- Theology.
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POETRY -- General.
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Poetry.
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Prophecy in literature.
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Religion and literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Burrows, Mark S., 1955- editor.
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Davies, Hilary, 1954- editor.
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von Zitzewitz, Josephine, editor
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| LC no. |
2020026717 |
| ISBN |
9780367344092 |
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0367344092 |
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9781000194654 |
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1000194655 |
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9781000194661 |
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1000194663 |
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9781000194678 |
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1000194671 |
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