Partenza Dynamics of Desacralization

Disenchanted Literary Talents
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0386-1
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 179 Seiten

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The idea of desacralization has become almost commonplace, attributing to the word the rejection of what is sacred. One might think that it is strictly connected to theology and its system, or suppose that it implies the relationship human beings have with anything that can express a denial of the spiritual part of life. The concept of desacralization has numerous meanings, either from a philosophical or a literary viewpoint. The scholars' investigation of Dynamics of Desacralization has made this collection of essays rich and varied, revealing new worlds the different authors have created. What they do is to narrate various types of desacralization interrogating the nature of novels, poems or works of art; certain aspects of being are revealed through various expressions, engaging the multiple levels and the meaning of desacralization providing an articulation and interpretation of it.

Prof Dr Paola Partenza is Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at 'G. d'Annunzio' University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Among the many authors to whom she has devoted essays are William Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Shakespeare and Andrew Marvell.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Partenza, Paola

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fawell, John

Benedict, Barbara

Stokes, Christopher

Leduc, Guyonne

Ebbatson, Roger

Beccone, Simona

Kilgore-Caradec, Jennifer

Melikoglu, Esra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;5
4;Body;7
5;Acknowledgements;7
6;Introduction;9
7;Guyonne Leduc: “The Stylistic Desacralization of Man in Britain in the [Sophia] Pamphlets (1739–1740)”;13
8;Christopher Stokes: Desacralizing the Sign: Tooke, Stewart and Romantic Materialism;37
8.1;Horne Tooke: The Diversions of Purley and the Disenchanted Sign;39
8.2;John Stewart: The Revolution of Reason and the Dialectical Sign;44
8.3;Materialism, Language, Romanticism;48
8.4;Works cited;51
9;Barbara M. Benedict: Satire, Sentiment and Desacralization: The Relic and the Commodity in Jane Austens Novels;53
9.1;The Sacralization of the Object;55
9.2;The Objectification of the Sacred;63
9.3;Conclusion;67
9.4;Works cited;69
10;Paola Partenza: Alfred Tennyson's De-sacralization of the Afterlife;71
10.1;Works cited;88
11;Roger Ebbatson: Seeking “the Beyond”: Desacralising/Resacralising Nature in Richard Jefferies;91
11.1;Works cited;102
12;John Fawell: An Earthy Sacredness: Maupassants and Van Goghs Christianized Materialism;103
12.1;Maupassants Cynicism towards Religion;104
12.2;Maupassant, Religion and Nature;107
12.3;Maupassants Sensual Landscapes;111
12.4;Van Gogh and Spirituality;113
12.5;Van Gogh and Nature: “A Love of Things that Exist”;115
12.6;Conclusion;120
13;Simona Beccone: Displacement-Distortion Theory and the Desacralisation of Aesthetic Categories: the Case Study of Hardy's “Neutral Tones”;123
13.1;Foveal vs. peripheral vision and the displacement-distortion model;123
13.2;Displacement-distortion and the phenomenology of aesthetic experience and categorization;124
13.3;Displacement-distortion and aesthetic sacralisation-desacralisation;129
13.4;Repetition and entropy;132
13.5;Thomas Hardy's “Neutral Tones”;135
13.6;Defocusing;137
13.7;Deformation: grotesque and horror;140
13.8;Repetition;144
13.9;Conclusions;145
13.10;Works cited;147
14;Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec: Geoffrey Hill's Serpents and Dragons;151
14.1;Works cited;161
15;Esra Melikoglu: “Morpho Eugenia”: The Individual Struggle for Self-Realisation and the Question of Morality in a Darwinian World Without God;163
15.1;Works cited;175
16;Notes on Contributors;177

Über Autor(innen)

Partenza, Paola
Paola Partenza is Associate Professor and teaches English Literature at the University of Pescara-Chieti, Italy.