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Christ and Apollo, originally published in 1960, is a classic of literary criticism, a book that Commonweal once predicted may well change the course of literary studies. It did not do that, of course. Its literary, philosophical, and theological presuppositions, as Glenn Arbery points out in his new introduction, were too different from those of the ruling theoretical paradigms for it to be given a hearing And that is precisely what makes it a volume worth returning to. In Christ and Apollo, William Lynch examines the Greek dramatists, Dante, Shakespeare, Proust, Camus, Graham Greene, and other writers in light of their affinities with two opposing tendencies. The symbol of the first approach is Apollo. For Lynch, this is the tendency to want to escape the finite, real world and the human condition of embodiment: it has much in common with what critic Allen Tate called the angelic imagination. The symbol of the other tendency is Christ, the Word made flesh. Artists working in this tradition give readers a glimpse of the infinite by working patiently and honestly with the materials of the finite world, in all its messy imprecision. For Lynch, then, as Arbery points out, limitation, or finitude, is the great human good. Praised by Flannery O'Connor, among others, Lynch's sophisticated work is in many ways an important elaboration of the New Criticism, avoiding that school of thought's formalist excesses while providing it with firmer philosophical ground. For anyone interested in understanding what distinguishes great literature, Christ and Apollo is an essential text.
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- ÉditeurISI Books
- Date d'édition2004
- ISBN 10 1932236228
- ISBN 13 9781932236224
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- Langueanglais
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Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination. With a new Introduction by Glenn C. Arbery.
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Original softcover. Etat : Sehr gut. XL, 371 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally stained edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Minimal angeschmutzter Schnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Christ and Apollo, originally published in 1960, is a classic of literary criticism, a book that Commonweal once predicted "may well change the course of literary studies." It did not do that, of course: its literary, philosophical, and theological presuppositions were too much at odds with those of the ruling theoretical paradigms. But that is precisely what makes it a volume worth returning to. In Christ and Apollo, William Lynch examines the Greek dramatists, Dante, Shakespeare, Proust, Camus, Graham Greene, and other writers in light of their affinities with two opposing tendencies. The symbol of the first approach is Apollo. For Lynch, this is the tendency to want to escape the finite, real world and the human condition of embodiment. The symbol of the other tendency is Christ, the Word made flesh. Artists working in this tradition give readers a glimpse of the infinite by working patiently and honestly with the materials of the finite world, in all its messy imprecision. For Lynch, limitation, or finitude, is the great human good. Praised by Flannery O'Connor, among others, Lynch's sophisticated work is in many ways an important elaboration of the New Criticism, avoiding that school of thoughts formalist excesses while providing it with firmer philosophical ground. For anyone interested in understanding what distinguishes great literature, Christ and Apollo is an essential text. - William F. Lynch, S.J. (1908-87) was born and educated in New York City, taking his doctorate from Fordham University in 1942 and later teaching at Georgetown University. In the early 1950s he became the editor of Thought, a leading Catholic journal of the time. Besides Christ and Apollo, Lynch's works of philosophy and criticism include The Image Industries, The Integrated Mind, and Christ and Prometheus. Glenn C. Arbery, poet, critic, and teacher, is the author of Why Literature Matters. ISBN 9781932236224 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 383. N° de réf. du vendeur 1194845
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