Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing
sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the
years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little attention
has been devoted to the impact of poets' theological deliberations on
their visions of history and their poetic strategies. Divine
Cartographies: God, History, and Poiesis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones,
and T. S. Eliot triangulates key texts as attempts to map
theologically driven visions of the relation between history and
eternity. W. David Soud considers several poems of Yeats's final and
most fruitful engagement with Indic traditions, Jones's The
Anathemata, and Eliot's Four Quartets. For these three poets, working
at the height of their powers, that project was inseparable from
reflection on the relation between the individual self and God; it was
also bound up with questions of theodicy, subjectivity, and the task
of the poet in the midst of historical trauma. Drawing on the fields
of Indology, theology, and history of religions as well as literary
criticism, Soud explores in depth and detail how, in these texts,
theology is poetics.
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9780191083341
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2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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