Adam
Adam
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Author: Denis Donoghue
Page Count: 224 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2001
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication Country: Notre Dame IN, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9780268020095
Download Link: adam's curse reflections on religion and literature
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Taking its title from a poem of William Butler Yeats, this collection of essays focuses on "Adam's Curse" - the burdens and harsh conditions that, as Denis Donoghue underscores throughout, make any human achievement difficult. As he says, those "conditions include at various levels of reference the Fall of Man, categorical failure, loss, the limitations inscribed so insistently in human life that they seem to be in the nature of things, like death and weather." But hope is never ruled out, as Donoghue reminds us of "the possibility of putting up with the conditions and turning them to some account." It is the "putting up with the conditions and turning them to some account" - a post-lapsarian struggle fraught with religious questions - that most interests Donoghue. These essays, which are explorations of both faith and literary works that engage faith, address a dazzling range of texts and writers: Yeats, Milton, Larkin, Heaney, Emmanuel Levinas, Alasdair Maclntyre, John Crowe Ransom, Henry Adams, William Lynch's Christ and Apollo, and Robert Bellah's Beyond Belief, among others. Common to all is an alertness to the social bearing of literature and the role it plays in relation to politics, religion, and especially ethics. What emerges, for Donoghue, is the need to restore the primary of theology and church doctrine without evading the "dark parts" of the Old and New Testaments. Through his probing, reflective encounters with philosophical and religious issues, we witness a magisterial intelligence at work.
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Adam's Curse : Reflections on Religion and Literature. Denis Donoghue
Author: Denis Donoghue
Page Count: 224 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2001
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication Country: Notre Dame IN, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9780268020095
Download Link: adam's curse reflections on religion and literature
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Taking its title from a poem of William Butler Yeats, this collection of essays focuses on "Adam's Curse" - the burdens and harsh conditions that, as Denis Donoghue underscores throughout, make any human achievement difficult. As he says, those "conditions include at various levels of reference the Fall of Man, categorical failure, loss, the limitations inscribed so insistently in human life that they seem to be in the nature of things, like death and weather." But hope is never ruled out, as Donoghue reminds us of "the possibility of putting up with the conditions and turning them to some account." It is the "putting up with the conditions and turning them to some account" - a post-lapsarian struggle fraught with religious questions - that most interests Donoghue. These essays, which are explorations of both faith and literary works that engage faith, address a dazzling range of texts and writers: Yeats, Milton, Larkin, Heaney, Emmanuel Levinas, Alasdair Maclntyre, John Crowe Ransom, Henry Adams, William Lynch's Christ and Apollo, and Robert Bellah's Beyond Belief, among others. Common to all is an alertness to the social bearing of literature and the role it plays in relation to politics, religion, and especially ethics. What emerges, for Donoghue, is the need to restore the primary of theology and church doctrine without evading the "dark parts" of the Old and New Testaments. Through his probing, reflective encounters with philosophical and religious issues, we witness a magisterial intelligence at work.
Read online Adam's Curse : Reflections on Religion and Literature Buy and read online Adam's Curse : Reflections on Religion and Literature Download Adam's Curse : Reflections on Religion and Literature ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Adam's Curse : Reflections on Religion and Literature ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent