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Visions and revisions : the word and the text / edited by Roger Kojecký and Andrew Tate. - 1 online resource (159 pages)

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Introduction; Believing in Poetry; Serious literature; On 'Seeing' what God is 'Saying'; The Aw(e)ful Necessity of Bible Re-reading; 'What's the use of stories that aren'teven true?'; St Paul's Gifts to Blake's Aesthetic1; Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives- and Deaths; In So Many Words; 'A World of Accidents'; A Presence through Absence; Visions and Revisions; Spiritual Realism; Contributors.

Literary texts are more or less obliged to make reference to entities beyond themselves. Drawing on other texts, ideas previously written, or on the resources of language, they make their attempts to communicate, entertain, and enlist sympathy, or even to offer counsel. Some texts profess an a priori vision, others adopt a style of reporting only contingencies. A dialogic relation can be posited between the ideal and the real, heaven and earth, imagination and reason, langue and parole, esse ...

ISBN: 9781443852456 1443852457 1299974228 9781299974227

Source: 528673 MIL

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB6F6764 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 017853317 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion in literature.
Literature--History and criticism.
Religion dans la littérature.
Littérature--Histoire et critique.
Literature & literary studies.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Christian spirituality & religious experience.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
Literature
Religion in literature

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PN49 / .V526 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 809