David J. Gordon

Literary Atheism

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After the inward turn promoted by Kant and modified by the Romantics, many educated Westerners came to understand God as an idea or a myth rather than as a being. The meaning of atheism necessarily changed as well. Post-Enlightenment atheists oppose, but cannot dismiss, a particular form and expression of cultural influence. Literary Atheism analyzes a number of oppositional engagements with the idea of God and, in general, explores the tension between the more absolute language of religion and the freer language of literature. Using the concept of perspective to unsettle religious absolutism, this book opens the work of various writers acros… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8204-6214-1
EAN: 9780820462141
Produktnummer: 19040524
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 212 S.
Masse: H16.0 cm x B23.6 cm x D1.7 cm 434 g
Gewicht: 434
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

The Author: David J. Gordon earned his Ph.D. in English at Yale University and is Professor of English Emeritus at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His previous books include D. H. Lawrence as Literary Critic, Literary Art and the Unconscious, Bernard Shaw and the Comic Sublime, and Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing.