Restless secularism : modernism and the religious inheritance /
A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a background of philosophy, theology, intellectual and social...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- "The world was paradise malformed": poetic language, anthropomorphism, and secularism in Wallace Stevens
- "Tangled in a golden mesh": Virginia Woolf and the "deceptiveness" of beauty
- "Homer is my example": Yeats, paganism, and the emotions
- "The power to enchant that comes from disillusion": W.H. Auden's anti-magical poetics