Description
Book SynopsisPoetry and Apocalypse provides a theological reading of poetic language in the Christian epic tradition from the Bible and Dante to James Joyce and furnishes a critical negative theology of poetic language.
Trade Review"This is an ambitious book. It takes on big topics, difficult writers, and a range of discourses. Authors who venture into topics like 'poetry and apocalypse' are usually comfortable with big ideas and forays into theoretic discourse that shy away from concrete literary analysis. Among Franke's virtues is his ability to do both in a prose that is graceful and accessible." -- Peter Hawkins * Boston University *
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Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language is a profound and radical study that holds many surprises . . . [W]e have long been convinced of the relevance of studies in religious thought, philosophy, and anthropology to literary scholarship.
Poetry and Apocalypse gives evidence of the importance of literature and literary hermeneutics to religion, philosophy, and anthropology." -- Dorothy Z. Baker *
Comparative Literature Studies *
"The importance of
Poetry and Apocalypse resides in the clarity of Franke's views of the necessary relations between literature and theology as well as the authority that these views have by dint of being grounded in his deep knowledge of canonical sacred and secular literature over the centuries. I should also say that Franke is his own man; he does not represent a 'school' or even a fashion, and his book marks an original contribution to the growing field of religion and literature." -- Kevin Hart * Monash University and University of Notre Dame *
"Franke's theory of poetic language as negative theology is persuasive and helpful in illuminating the complex relationship between religion and literature." -- Joel Harter *
The Journal of Religion *
Table of ContentsContents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Preface iii @toc1:Part 1 @toc2:I. Apocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue: A Critical Negative Theology of Poetic Language 00 @toc1:Part 2 @toc2:II. Linguistic Repetition as Theological Revelation in Christian Epic Tradition from Dante to Joyce 000 III. Typological Re-Origination and the Theological Vocation of Poetry: How to Read Finnegans Wake as the Culmination of Christian Epic 000 IV. On the Possibility of a Poetics of Revelation Today: From Apocalyptic Theology to Postmodern Negative Theology 000 @toc4:Post-apocalypse 000 Notes 000 Index 000
