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A refreshing new look at the Book of Psalms, this analysis of its postmodern poetry reveals its enduring relevance as a source of sustenance, comfort, and a practical handbook for life.
A refreshing new look at the Book of Psalms, this analysis of its postmodern poetry reveals its enduring relevance as a source of sustenance, comfort, and a practical handbook for life.
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As our culture increasingly communicates through images, public theology must engage with this field. The potency of images is an uncharted force compelling us to reassess our interpretation of religion and propelling theology towards a future yet to be discovered.
As our culture increasingly communicates through images, public theology must engage with this field. The potency of images is an uncharted force compelling us to reassess our interpretation of religion and propelling theology towards a future yet to be discovered.
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Re-Embroidering the Robe
Faith, Myth and Literary Creation since 1850
Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.
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Science, Fables and Chimeras
Cultural Encounters
Imagination, religion, and mythology have both helped and hindered scientific progress. This interdisciplinary book weaves together visual art, literature, and science to explore our fascination with potent symbols like dinosaurs, dragons, and the chimera.
Imagination, religion, and mythology have both helped and hindered scientific progress. This interdisciplinary book weaves together visual art, literature, and science to explore our fascination with potent symbols like dinosaurs, dragons, and the chimera.
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Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
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Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures
From Epics to Novels
These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.
These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.
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Shakespeare on Love
The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism
Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare's Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.
Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.
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Shakespeare’s Ghosts Live
From Shakespeare's Ghosts to Psychical Research
This book throws new light on many historical case reports from Shakespeare’s time onwards. It raises awareness against the emptiness of a zombie-like existence in today’s society and offers a new approach to life and death, and their deeper meaning.
This book throws new light on many historical case reports from Shakespeare’s time onwards. It raises awareness against the emptiness of a zombie-like existence in today’s society and offers a new approach to life and death, and their deeper meaning.
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Panecka interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer. She shows that the Poet Laureate claimed that England had lost her soul, which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of Nature.
Panecka interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer. She shows that the Poet Laureate claimed that England had lost her soul, which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of Nature.
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Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison's poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.
Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison’s poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.
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The Aphorisms of Yi Deok-mu
Musings of a Grateful Reader
This volume brings together excerpts from Seongyuldang nongso and Imokgusimseo by the 18th-century scholar Yi Deok-mu. The thoughtful discourse presented here offers considerable comfort and joy to contemporary readers, in an age sadly dominated by a dog-eat-dog mentality.
This volume brings together excerpts from Seongyuldang nongso and Imokgusimseo by the 18th-century scholar Yi Deok-mu. The thoughtful discourse presented here offers considerable comfort and joy to contemporary readers, in an age sadly dominated by a dog-eat-dog mentality.
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This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.
This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.
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The Poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus
Discovering a New Face of His Personality
Gregory of Nazianzus was a famous 4th-century theologian, but he was also a celebrated poet. This book discovers the poet, not the theologian, revealing the all-too-human aspects of his personality and bringing to light new characteristics of his life and thought.
Gregory of Nazianzus was a famous 4th-century theologian, but he was also a celebrated poet. This book discovers the poet, not the theologian, revealing the all-too-human aspects of his personality and bringing to light new characteristics of his life and thought.
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The Prophets and the Goddess
W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves and the Chthonic Esoteric Tradition
Psilopoulos discusses how W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound and Robert Graves had access to the forbidden knowledge of the Goddess. These four poets experienced a confrontation with their unconscious and let the grace of the Goddess touch their heart strings.
Psilopoulos discusses how W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound and Robert Graves had access to the forbidden knowledge of the Goddess. These four poets experienced a confrontation with their unconscious and let the grace of the Goddess touch their heart strings.
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A global exploration of religion's role in shaping inclusion and exclusion in utopian and dystopian literature. This collection offers critical insights for scholars and students of literature, religion, and interdisciplinary studies.
A global exploration of religion’s role in shaping inclusion and exclusion in utopian and dystopian literature. This collection offers critical insights for scholars and students of literature, religion, and interdisciplinary studies.
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This is the first in-depth English analysis of the nine short poems, or romances, by Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross. Focusing on the Trinity, it explores their literary, theological, and mystical elements, tying them to San Juan’s better-known works.
This is the first in-depth English analysis of the nine short poems, or romances, by Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross. Focusing on the Trinity, it explores their literary, theological, and mystical elements, tying them to San Juan’s better-known works.
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This volume brings together research on the poetry of less-explored modern Indian poets. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry.
This volume brings together research on the poetry of less-explored modern Indian poets. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry.
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Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
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The Unharnessed World
Janet Frame and Buddhist Thought
Though Janet Frame encountered Buddhism, her work has never been examined through its lens. This study shows how a Buddhist reading sheds new light on her mysterious texts, arguing Frame used its epistemology to approach the infinite and the Other.
Though Janet Frame encountered Buddhism, her work has never been examined through its lens. This study shows how a Buddhist reading sheds new light on her mysterious texts, arguing Frame used its epistemology to approach the infinite and the Other.
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A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
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