Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian WritingBucknell University Press, 2007 - 228 עמודים A great deal of Victorian literature recycles themes, images, and language from apocalyptic literature, in what might be described as an affinity with the genre. With this affinity in mind, Approaching Apocalypse examines certain structuring oppositions that shape apocalyptic literature, and sets out to decode their significance for Victorian writing. They are: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/eternal, and this world/other world. The five main chapters of the book each deal with one of these opposites, reading a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, plays, sermons, and other less easily categorized texts. At the heart of each chapter is an extended reading of one or two texts selected for their particularly telling insights into the relationship between Victorian writing and the Book of Revelation. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 53
עמוד 28
... Nature communicate to the suppliant a reciprocity which implies that the world cannot be seen merely as an object , or as an " it . " The sublime draws the awe - stricken subject into an engagement with Nature , into participating in ...
... Nature communicate to the suppliant a reciprocity which implies that the world cannot be seen merely as an object , or as an " it . " The sublime draws the awe - stricken subject into an engagement with Nature , into participating in ...
עמוד 43
... nature , for God cannot interfere with Himself . ... For the Christian theologian the facts of nature are the acts of God . " ' 18 But the nature of nature is still very much in doubt here . In 1860 Darwin himself pointed out certain ...
... nature , for God cannot interfere with Himself . ... For the Christian theologian the facts of nature are the acts of God . " ' 18 But the nature of nature is still very much in doubt here . In 1860 Darwin himself pointed out certain ...
עמוד 63
... nature and human destiny into their hands . Society would never be the same.60 The idea that nature had to be conquered is crucial here be- cause it could be understood as the meshing of theological im- peratives to subdue the earth ...
... nature and human destiny into their hands . Society would never be the same.60 The idea that nature had to be conquered is crucial here be- cause it could be understood as the meshing of theological im- peratives to subdue the earth ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Human and Inhuman | 33 |
The Desert in the City | 65 |
זכויות יוצרים | |
5 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing <span dir=ltr>Kevin Mills</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2007 |
Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing <span dir=ltr>Kevin Mills</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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