Dynamics of desacralization : : disenchanted literary talents / / Paola Partenza (ed.).
Biographische InformationenPaola Partenza teaches English Literature at the University of Pescara-Chieti (Italy). ReihePassages - Transitions - Intersections - Band 001
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Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen, Germany : : V&R unipress,, 2015. ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | V&R Academic
Passages-Transitions-Intersections ; Volume 1 |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
Notes: | "This is a peer-reviewed volume." |
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Guyonne Leduc: "The Stylistic Desacralization of Man in Britain in the [Sophia] Pamphlets (1739-1740)"; Christopher Stokes: Desacralizing the Sign: Tooke, Stewart and Romantic Materialism; Horne Tooke: The Diversions of Purley and the Disenchanted Sign; John Stewart: The Revolution of Reason and the Dialectical Sign; Materialism, Language, Romanticism; Works cited; Barbara M. Benedict: Satire, Sentiment and Desacralization: The Relic and the Commodity in Jane Austens Novels; The Sacralization of the Object
- The Objectification of the SacredConclusion; Works cited; Paola Partenza: Alfred Tennyson's De-sacralization of the Afterlife; Works cited; Roger Ebbatson: Seeking "the Beyond": Desacralising/Resacralising Nature in Richard Jefferies; Works cited; John Fawell: An Earthy Sacredness: Maupassants and Van Goghs Christianized Materialism; Maupassants Cynicism towards Religion; Maupassant, Religion and Nature; Maupassants Sensual Landscapes; Van Gogh and Spirituality; Van Gogh and Nature: "A Love of Things that Exist"; Conclusion
- Simona Beccone: Displacement-Distortion Theory and the Desacralisation of Aesthetic Categories: the Case Study of Hardy's "Neutral Tones"Foveal vs. peripheral vision and the displacement-distortion model; Displacement-distortion and the phenomenology of aesthetic experience and categorization; Displacement-distortion and aesthetic sacralisation-desacralisation; Repetition and entropy; Thomas Hardy's "Neutral Tones"; Defocusing; Deformation: grotesque and horror; Repetition; Conclusions; Works cited; Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec: Geoffrey Hill's Serpents and Dragons; Works cited
- Esra Melikoglu: "Morpho Eugenia": The Individual Struggle for Self-Realisation and the Question of Morality in a Darwinian World Without GodWorks cited; Notes on Contributors