Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A principio erat verbum. La position spirituelle et la situation littéraire d’un écrivain engoncé entre une fin de siècle matérialiste et un avant-siècle se prosternant devant l’idéologie du Progrès le condamne parfois à errer en une sorte d’interrègne, qui masque la modernité de son interrogation religieuse. Chez Huysmans, ce réseau de signes apparemment contraires désigne le lieu d’une interrogation essentielle. Celle-ci ne trouvera sa réponse qu’à partir du cycle de Durtal, tandis que son foyer demeurera sans cesse ardent jusqu’à la conversion de l’écrivain, en 1892, et au-delà. Loin d’être frappés de désuétude, le long cheminement spirituel et son point d’orgue, la déclaration de foi, rendent Huysmans plus proche de nous. Ses hésitations et ses atermoiements confèrent une sincérité douloureuse à son besoin d’absolu. Tout un pluriel d’interrogations trouvent une manière de réponse dans le cycle catholique (En route, La Cathédrale, L’Oblat), mais déjà, les états d’âme de des Esseintes laissent assez tôt entrevoir les états de l’âme, celle qui s’ouvre à l’éveil de la foi. Ce livre, tiré des travaux du colloque Joris-Karl Huysmans organisé à l’Institut catholique de Rennes le 15 décembre 2007, à l’occasion du centenaire de la mort de l’écrivain, exprime au sujet de Huysmans certaine nouveauté, relative à la seconde partie de la vie de l’écrivain. Soit qu’il s’agisse de projeter une lumière inédite sur quelques aspects choisis de la figure de l’homme et de l’œuvre dite catholique ; soit qu’il s’agisse de mettre au jour des aspects eux-mêmes moins connus, qui convergent vers l’image d’un Huysmans, homme de la synthèse.

Huysmans, J.-K. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Religion --- Huysmans, Joris-Karl, --- Huysmans, Joris-Karl (1848-1907) --- Religion et littérature --- Critique et interprétation --- religion --- littérature --- Huysmans --- Joris-Karl --- art --- roman --- littérature française

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world "out there" and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal actions and concentrated focus. The result of both cinema and religious practice is a re-created world: a world of fantasy, a world of ideology, a world we long to live in, or a world we wish to avoid at all costs. Religion and Film introduces readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and on the ways they each re-create the world. Explorations of film show how the cinematic experience relies on similar aesthetic devices on which religious rituals have long relied: sight, sound, the taste of food, the body, and communal experience. Meanwhile, a deeper understanding of the aesthetic nature of religious rituals can alter our understanding of film production. Utilizing terminology and theoretical insights from the study of religion as well as the study of film, Religion and Film shows that by paying attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed new light on the ways religious myths and rituals are constructed and vice versa. This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition is designed to appeal to the needs of courses in religion as well as film departments. In addition to two new chapters, this edition has been restructured into three distinct sections that offer students and instructors theories and methods for thinking about cinema in ways that more fully connect film studies with religious studies.

Motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Religion in motion pictures. --- Religion --- Religious films --- Films religieux --- Religion and literature. --- Religion et littérature. --- Religious aspects --- Aspect religieux. --- Au cinéma. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Religion in motion pictures --- Religion and motion pictures --- Religious aspects. --- Moral and religious aspects --- Cinéma --- Religion et littérature. --- Au cinéma.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In late-fourteenth-century England, the persistent question of how to live the best life preoccupied many pious Christians. One answer was provided by a new genre of prose guides that adapted professional religious rules and routines for lay audiences. These texts engaged with many of the same cultural questions as poets like Langland and Chaucer; however, they have not received the critical attention they deserve until now. Nicole Rice analyses how the idea of religious discipline was translated into varied literary forms in an atmosphere of religious change and controversy. By considering the themes of spiritual discipline, religious identity, and orthodoxy in Langland and Chaucer, the study also brings fresh perspectives to bear on Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales. This juxtaposition of spiritual guidance and poetry will form an important contribution to our understanding of both authors and of late medieval religious practice and thought.

Christian religion --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- English prose literature --- English poetry --- Religion and literature --- Spiritual life in literature. --- Spiritual life --- Religious thought --- Prose anglaise --- Poésie anglaise --- Religion et littérature --- Vie spirituelle dans la littérature --- Vie spirituelle --- Pensée religieuse --- History and criticism. --- History --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Christianisme --- Histoire des doctrines --- Poésie anglaise --- Religion et littérature --- Vie spirituelle dans la littérature --- Pensée religieuse --- Church history --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Moral and religious aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Grande-Bretagne --- Jusqu'à 1500 --- Moyen-Âge

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. For McEwan and his contemporaries, the contemporary novel represents a new front in the ideological war against religion, religious fundamentalism and, after 9/11, religious terror: the novel apparently stands for everything freedom, individuality, rationality and even a secular experience of the transcendental that religion seeks to overthrow. In this book, Bradley and Tate offer a genealogy of the New Atheist Novel: where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future. What is it? How does it dramatise the war between belief and non-belief? To what extent does it represent a genuine ideological alternative to the religious imaginary or does it merely repeat it in secularised form? This fascinating study offers an incisive critique of this contemporary testament of literary belief and unbelief.

Religion and literature. --- Atheism and literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- McEwan, Ian --- Amis, Martin --- Rushdie, Salman --- Pullman, Philip, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion and literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature and atheism --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Moral and religious aspects --- McEwan, Ian (1948-....) --- Amis, Martin (1949-....) --- Rushdie, Salman (1947-....) --- Pullman, Philip (1946-....) --- Religion et littérature --- Athéisme --- Littérature anglophone --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- 21e siècle --- Religion et littérature --- Athéisme --- Littérature anglophone --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- 21e siècle