Augustine And Literature

by Kennedy, Robert P.; Paffenroth, Kim; Doody, John; Ali, Seemee; Baldwin, Debra Romanick; Bertonneau, Thomas F.; Cary, Phillip; Contino, Paul J.; Craig, Barry L.; Edsall, Mary Agnes; Hill, Marylu; Jones, Christine A.; Merriman, Emily Taylor; Moulaison, Glen

• ISBN13: 9780739113844
• ISBN10: 0739113844
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-22
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

The influence of Christianity on literature has been great throughout history, as has been the influence of the great Christian Augustine. Augustine and Literature explores Augustine's influence on literature from the Middle Ages to the present day and discusses the implications of expressing Augustine's religious themes both in literature and in more directly theological works.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
Robert P. Kennedy
Kim Paffenroth
John Doody
Marylu Hill
Part One: Literature to the Sixteenth Century
The Weight of Love: Augustinian Metaphors of Movement in Dante's Souls	15	(22)
Phillip Cary
``Se ponne pisne Wealsteal Wise Gepohte'': An Augustinian Reading of the Early English Meditation the Wanderer	37	(26)
Mary Agnes Edsall
``There's a Divinity That Shapes Our Ends'': An Augustinian Reading of Hamlet	63	(34)
Eric Plumer
Part Two: Literature of the Seventeenth Century
St. Augustine and the Metaphysical Poets	97	(20)
Barry L. Craig
Eloquence for the Age of Enlightenment: Fenelon's St. Augustine	117	(22)
Christine A. Jones
Justifying the Ways of God and Man: Theodicy in Augustine and Milton	139	(18)
John Savoie
Part Three: Nineteenth-Century Literature
The Senescence of the World: Augustine's Idea of History and Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean	157	(22)
Thomas F. Bertonneau
``Descend That You May Ascend'': Augustine, Dostoevsky, and the Confessions of Ivan Karamazov	179	(36)
Paul J. Contino
``Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me'': Eucharist and the Erotic Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market	215	(18)
Marylu Hill
``Words, Those Precious Cups of Meaning'': Augustine's Influence on the Thought and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.	233	(22)
Emily Taylor Merriman
A Season in Hell, or the Confessions of Arthur Rimbaud	255	(16)
Glenn Moulaison
Feminine Wisdom in Augustine and Goethe's Faust	271	(16)
Kim Paffenroth
Part Four: Twentieth-Century Literature
Faulkner's Augustinian Sense of Time	287	(14)
Seemee Ali
Augustinian Physicality and the Rhetoric of the Grotesque in the Art of Flannery O'Connor	301	(26)
Debra Romanick Baldwin
Marking the Frontiers of World War II with ``Stabilized Disorder'': Rebecca West Reads St. Augustine	327	(16)
Mary Anne Schofield
Confessional Ethics in Augustine and Ralph Ellison	343	(20)
Mark Shiffman
Bibliography	363	(24)
Augustine's Works Index	387	(8)
Author Index	395	(6)
Subject Index	401	(10)
About the Editors and Contributors	411