The Spiritual Geography of Modern Writing: Essays on Dehumanization, Human Isolation and Transcendence - Couverture souple

Ponomareff, Constantin V.

 
9789042001749: The Spiritual Geography of Modern Writing: Essays on Dehumanization, Human Isolation and Transcendence
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ISBN 10 : 9042001747 ISBN 13 : 9789042001749
Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 1997

Synopsis

This collection of essays deals with the spiritual crisis in modern society and focusses in particular on European writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The essays trace themes of spiritual unease, narrowing of inner human space, impoverishment of the self, growing human isolation, dehumanization, and the writers' attempts to overcome this malaise. The essays also try to show how inhuman political and social environments and feelings of cultural impasse can become mitigated and reclaimed by socially conscious acts of creative writing. Obsession, self-delusion, creative frustration and personal tragedy are seen to haunt this kind of modern writing which is at the same time infused with the writers' profound sense of moral responsibility to society and marked, on occasion, by that rare experience of Epiphany and transcendence.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This collection of essays deals with the spiritual crisis in modern society and focusses in particular on European writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The essays trace themes of spiritual unease, narrowing of inner human space, impoverishment of the self, growing human isolation, dehumanization, and the writers' attempts to overcome this malaise. The essays also try to show how inhuman political and social environments and feelings of cultural impasse can become mitigated and reclaimed by socially conscious acts of creative writing. Obsession, self-delusion, creative frustration and personal tragedy are seen to haunt this kind of modern writing which is at the same time infused with the writers' profound sense of moral responsibility to society and marked, on occasion, by that rare experience of Epiphany and transcendence.

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Éditeur
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042001747
ISBN 13 
9789042001749
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
141
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Personne responsable
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