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Visions and revisions : the word and the text / edited by Roger Kojecký and Andrew Tate.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Description: 1 online resource (159 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781443852456
  • 1443852457
  • 1299974228
  • 9781299974227
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Visions and revisionsDDC classification:
  • 809 23
LOC classification:
  • PN49 .V526 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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 ...
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)649545

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Print version record.

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 ...