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This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. These esoteric traditions do not reflect the influence of Greek Mystery religions, as has often been claimed, but rather seem to stem from the Jewish background of Christianity. They were adopted by various Gnostic teachings, a fact which helps explaining their eventual disappearance from Patristic literature. The eleven chapters study each a different aspect of the problem, including the questions of Gnostic and Manichaean esotericism. This book will be of interest to all students of religious history in Late Antiquity. Revised and extended paperback edition. Originally published in 1996. Please click here for details.
Occultism --- Discipline of the secret. --- Mysticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- History --- Discipline of the secret --- Arcane chrétien --- Mysticisme --- Occultisme --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- History. --- Church history --- Disciplina arcani --- Secret, Discipline of the --- Church discipline --- Secrecy --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- esoteric traditions --- Christian mysticism --- early Christianity --- patristic hermeneutics --- Late Antiquity --- Greek mystery religions --- Judaism --- gnosticism --- Manichean esotericism --- religious history
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Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America's engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon's career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon's relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism and his preoccupation with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction, this study explores how Pynchon's complex narratives work both as exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious interventions in the political health of the nation.
Pynchon, Thomas --- Criticism and interpretation --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pynchon, Thomas. --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Against the Day. --- American postmodernity. --- Gravity's Rainbow. --- Mason &Dixon. --- Slow Learner. --- The Crying of Lot 49. --- The Secret Integration Entropy. --- Thomas Pynchon. --- United States' political history. --- Vineland. --- aporia. --- constraint. --- eighteenth-century colonial culture. --- forms of relationship. --- freedom. --- modernism. --- paranoid sensibility.
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Following the highly acclaimed Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates the breadth of Ted Berrigan's poetic accomplishments by presenting his most celebrated, interesting, and important work. This major second-wave New York School poet is often identified with his early poems, especially The Sonnets, but this selection encompasses his full poetic output, including the later sequences Easter Monday and A Certain Slant of Sunlight, as well as many of his uncollected poems. The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan provides a new perspective for those already familiar with his remarkable wit and invention, and introduces new readers to what John Ashbery called the "crazy energy" of this iconoclastic, funny, brilliant, and highly innovative writer. Praise for The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan: "This is a great, great book for all seasons of the mind and heart."-Robert Creeley "Thanks to this invaluable Collected Poems, one can hear, as never before, Ted Berrigan dreaming his dream." -The Nation "The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan is not only one of the most strikingly attractive books recently published, but is also a major work of 20th-century poetry. . . . It is a book that will darken with the grease of my hands. There is no better way to praise it than by saying, 'If you enjoy poetry, you should have it.'" -Bloomsbury Review "It's a must-have, a poetic knockout."-Time Out New York
American poetry --- POETRY / General. --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- 20th century. --- American poetry -- 20th century. --- Berrigan, Anselm. --- Berrigan, Edmund, 1974-. --- Notley, Alice, 1945-. --- Berrigan, Ted. --- Berrigan, Ted. -- Poems. -- Selections.. --- a certain slant of sunlight. --- american express. --- anti war poem. --- bean spasms. --- classics. --- dial a poem. --- doubts. --- early poems. --- easter monday. --- for you. --- from a secret journal. --- literature. --- london air. --- many happy returns. --- new york school. --- penn station. --- people of the future. --- personal poem 2. --- personal poem 9. --- poem in the traditional manner. --- poems. --- poetry. --- post modernism. --- resolution. --- rusty nails. --- second wave. --- string of pearls. --- tambourine life. --- ted berrigan. --- the secret life of ford madox ford. --- the sonnets. --- uncollected poems. --- words for love.
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Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. It is also the earliest example of what Rivkah Zim identifies as a distinctive and vitally important medium of literary resistance: writing in captivity by prisoners of conscience and persecuted minorities.The Consolations of Writing reveals why the great contributors to this tradition of prison writing are among the most crucial figures in Western literature. Zim pairs writers from different periods and cultural settings, carefully examining the rhetorical strategies they used in captivity, often under the threat of death. She looks at Boethius and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as philosophers and theologians writing in defense of their ideas, and Thomas More and Antonio Gramsci as politicians in dialogue with established concepts of church and state. Different ideas of grace and disgrace occupied John Bunyan and Oscar Wilde in prison; Madame Roland and Anne Frank wrote themselves into history in various forms of memoir; and Jean Cassou and Irina Ratushinskaya voiced their resistance to totalitarianism through lyric poetry that saved their lives and inspired others. Finally, Primo Levi's writing after his release from Auschwitz recalls and decodes the obscenity of systematic genocide and its aftermath.A moving and powerful testament, The Consolations of Writing speaks to some of the most profound questions about life, enriching our understanding of what it is to be human.
Psychic trauma in literature. --- Politics in literature. --- Autobiography. --- Prisoners' writings --- Protest literature --- Underground literature --- Politics and literature. --- Political science in literature --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Writings of prisoners --- Literature --- Clandestine literature --- Illegal literature --- Literature, Underground --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Political aspects --- Anicius Boethius. --- Anne Frank. --- Antonio Gramsci. --- Auschwitz. --- Boethius. --- De Profundis. --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer. --- European intellectuals. --- French Revolution. --- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. --- Holocaust. --- Irina Ratushinskaya. --- Joean Cassou. --- John Bunyan. --- Marie-Jeanne Roland. --- Memoirs. --- Oscar Wilde. --- Primo Levi. --- The Diary and Tales from the Secret Annexe. --- Thomas More. --- authority. --- captivity. --- existentialism. --- family relationships. --- genocide. --- imprisonment. --- literary resistance. --- llyric poetry. --- lyric meters. --- memoir. --- memoirs. --- oppression. --- paradox. --- persecuted minority. --- poems. --- poetry. --- politics. --- prison writing. --- prisoner of conscience. --- prisoners. --- totalitarianism. --- twentieth-century poets. --- women political prisoners.
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