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Religion and the Muse

The Vexed Relation Between Religion and Western Literature

  • Paperback
  • 278 pages
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.7 cm

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Ever since Plato banished poets from his ideal state, Western religion and literature have been in tension. Through close readings of selected texts, Religion and the Muse explores the alternately complementary and conflictual ways that religion and literature have appealed to the Western spiritual sensibility. The book constructs a turbulent line of mutual critique, with joint origins in Plato and Dante. It finds theoretic harmony above the historic fray, through the ideas of creativity, beauty, experience, and ethics, in which both religious and literary texts participate. However, the dimensions of ambivalence in the relations between religion and literature are shown in both the concordant and discordant interpretations that the religious and literary texts make of six perennial themes: love, death, evil, suffering, forgiveness, and saintliness.
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  • Author

    Ernest Rubinstein

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    State University of New York Press

  • Published

    June 2008

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    278

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780791471500

  • ISBN-10

    0791471500

  • Eden Code

    1226920

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