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Ivan Merz (1896-1928) est un homme de lettres éperdument amoureux de la France. Quand il soutient en 1923, à Zagreb, sa thèse consacrée à l'influence de la liturgie sur les écrivains français, il vient de vivre deux années intenses à Paris pendant lesquelles il a fréquenté assidûment les œuvres des plus grands auteurs français à la Sorbonne, à l'Institut catholique, mais aussi dans les cercles littéraires. Parmi les mille et une découvertes qu'il fait pendant ce séjour, de 1920 à 1922, juste après ses études de lettres commencées à Vienne, le bienheureux Ivan Metz est marqué par une chose singulière, qui lui apparaît comme une particularité de la culture française : le reflet du culte dans la littérature. La manière dont les Chateaubriand, Hugo et Huysmans témoignent de la splendeur de ce qu'il chérit par-dessus tout, à savoir la liturgie, le fascine. Né d'une telle fascination, son travail sur l'influence de la liturgie sur les écrivains français est l'œuvre d'un saint tout en restant celle d'un critique littéraire à part entière. jamais, chez lui, la rigueur de l'analyse ne pâtit de l'ardeur de la foi ni l'ardeur de la foi de la rigueur de l'analyse. Autant dire qu'Ivan Merz nous fait découvrir les écrivains français et la liturgie sous un jour nouveau

French literature --- Liturgy and literature. --- History and criticism. --- French literature - History and criticism.

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"Who will mourn with me? Who will break bread with me? Who is my neighbor? In the wake of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, such questions called for a new approach to the communal religious rituals and verses that shaped and commemorated many of the brightest and darkest moments of English life. In England, new forms of religious writing emerged out of a deeply fractured spiritual community. Conflicts of Devotion reshapes our understanding of the role that poetry played in the re-formation of English community, and shows us that understanding both the poetics of liturgy and the liturgical character of poetry is essential to comprehending the deep shifts in English spiritual attitudes and practices that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The liturgical, communitarian perspective of Conflicts of Devotion sheds new light on neglected texts and deepens our understanding of how major writers such as Edmund Spenser, Robert Southwell, and John Donne struggled to write their way out of the spiritual and social crises of the age of the Reformation. It also sheds new light on the roles that poetry may play in negotiating--and even overcoming--religious conflict. Attention to liturgical poetics allows us to see the broad spectrum of ways in which English poets forged new forms of spiritual community out of the very language of theological division. This book will be of great interest to teachers and students of early modern poetry and of the various fields related to reformation studies: history, politics, and theology. "Conflicts of Devotion is exceptionally well-written and is subtly and persuasively argued, advancing scholarship in such important ways as to change our ways of thinking about the major poets of this period. It will have special value to graduate students and young academics looking for an approach to their own writing." --Gerard Wegemer, University of Dallas"--

Religious poetry, English --- Christian poetry, English --- Liturgy and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Christianity and literature. --- Literature and society --- History

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The Book of Common Prayer is one of the most important and influential books in English history, but it has received relatively little attention from literary scholars. This study seeks to remedy this by attending to the prayerbook's importance in England's political, intellectual, religious, and literary history. The first half of the book presents extensive analyses of the Book of Common Prayer's involvement in early modern discourses of nationalism and individualism, and argues that the liturgy sought to engage and textually reconcile these potentially competing cultural impulses. In its second half, Liturgy and Literature traces these tensions in subsequent works by four major authors - Sidney, Shakespeare, Milton, and Hobbes - and contends that they operate within the dialectical parameters laid out in the prayerbook decades earlier. Rosendale's analyses are supplemented by a brief history of the Book of Common Prayer, and by an appendix which discusses its contents.

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