The poetics of transcendence / / edited by Elisa Heinämäki, P. M. Mehtonen and Antti Salminen.

• Superior document: Currents of Encounter ; v. 51
• TeilnehmendeR: Heinämäki, Elisa.; Mehtonen, P. M.; Salminen, Antti.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Currents of Encounter 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The present “turn to religion” has also meant a rekindled interest in transcendence, a concept once deemed a relic of a metaphysical past. This volume approaches transcendence from a particular perspective: that of language and literature seen as a matrix of expression of transcendence and its interplay of immanence. The essays in this volume probe the poetic and literary devices through which transcendence has been solicited, evoked, and generated. This has also meant revisiting the long Christian tradition, not simply to rehabilitate it but as an indispensable source for present writing and thinking. “Thus, ultimately, the present anthology offers no apology for traditional views of transcendence and religious experience but presents original contributions to the poetics of transcendence that are sensitive to religious as well as a-religious languages in literature. It is argued that, in order to rethink meanings and the value of transcendence, rigorous ontological philosophy must once again face up to the imaginative potential of poetics.” (From the Introduction)

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Elisa Heinämäki -- Literary Beyonds: An Introduction / Elisa Heinämäki , P.M. Mehtonen and Antti Salminen -- Non-Religious Mysticism: Between Immanence and Transcendence / Daniel Acke -- Writing Through the Transcendence: On Paul Celan’s Mysticism / Antti Salminen -- Transcribing Desire: Mystical Theology in Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts / Kent L. Brintnall -- Transcendence and Poetics: Levinas, Ricoeur, Frost / Shira Wolosky -- Language and Transcendence in Dante’s Paradiso / William Franke -- The Original Analogy: Mediating Transcendence in The Man Without Qualities / Elisa Heinämäki -- Transcendental Puppets: Kant and Kleist / Jarkko Toikkanen -- Horizontal Rivalry, Vertical Transcendence: Identity and Idolatry in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History / Hanna Mäkelä -- Index of Names / Elisa Heinämäki -- Index of Subjects / Elisa Heinämäki -- Contributors / Elisa Heinämäki.