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Examines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning.

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I consider this book to be absolutely brilliant. The authors it discusses are central to the modernist movement in literature, and Hughes offers a new perspective regarding what makes them important. His use of philosophy to deepen his literary analysis is especially valuable, and he uses it to make a compelling case for the centrality of the theme of transcendence to their works. He explains his thesis so clearly and illustrates it so well that I think even a reader averse to that theme would recognize its importance to these authors."—Eugene Webb, University of Washington, author of The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature

From Dickinson to Dylan

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      Publisher: University of Missouri Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826222206, 978-0826222206
      ISBN10: 082622220X
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Philosophy of religion

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning.

      Trade Review
      I consider this book to be absolutely brilliant. The authors it discusses are central to the modernist movement in literature, and Hughes offers a new perspective regarding what makes them important. His use of philosophy to deepen his literary analysis is especially valuable, and he uses it to make a compelling case for the centrality of the theme of transcendence to their works. He explains his thesis so clearly and illustrates it so well that I think even a reader averse to that theme would recognize its importance to these authors."—Eugene Webb, University of Washington, author of The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature

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