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Modernism and Theology Joanna Rzepa

Modernism and Theology By Joanna Rzepa

Modernism and Theology by Joanna Rzepa


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This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms.

Modernism and Theology Summary

Modernism and Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz by Joanna Rzepa

This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in Christian theology from a transnational and interdenominational perspective. It offers a cultural history of the period, considering a wide range of literary and historical sources, including novels, drama, poetry, literary criticism, encyclicals, theological and philosophical treatises, periodical publications, and wartime propaganda. By contextualising literary modernism within the cultural, religious, and political landscape, the book reveals fundamental yet largely forgotten connections between literary and theological modernisms. It shows that early-twentieth-century authors, poets, and critics, including Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Czeslaw Milosz, actively engaged with the debates between modernist and neo-scholastic theologians raging across Europe. These debates contributed to developing new ways of thinking about the relationship between religion and literature, and informed contemporary critical writings on aesthetics and poetics.

Modernism and Theology Reviews

Modernism and Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz is an academic monograph of high quality. ... Time and again, as a reader of this book, I am made aware of the undiminished actuality ... which occupied the minds of theological and literary thinkers ... . In spite of being a work of immensely careful and detailed scholarship concentrated on a defined period in the past ... it keeps the Modernist chapter wide open to the present. (Jean Ward, Konteksy Kultury, Vol. 19 (3), 2022)

About Joanna Rzepa

Joanna Rzepa is Lecturer in Literature in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK. She researches and teaches twentieth-century literature and culture, comparative literature, and literary translation. Her work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Comparative Critical Studies, Translation Studies, and other leading journals.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

Part I Reconciling Christianity and Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century

2 A Theological History of Modernism

3 Spiritualising the War: Religion, Conflict, and Politics

4 Spaces of Encounter: Theological Modernism and Neo-scholasticism in Literature and Literary Criticism

Part II Poetry, Aesthetics, and Theology (c. 1900-1950)

5 The Ripening Dark God of Modernity: Religion and Creativity in Rainer Maria Rilke's and Lou Andreas-Salome's Writings

6 A 'Raid on the Absolute': Dogmatic Tradition and Mystical Experience in T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Criticism

7 'A Passionate Pursuit of the Real': Theology and Poetics in Czeslaw Milosz's Writings

8 Epilogue

Additional information

NPB9783030615291
9783030615291
3030615294
Modernism and Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz by Joanna Rzepa
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Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021-03-17
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