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Book SynopsisThe present “turn to religion” has also meant a rekindled interest in transcendence, a concept once deemed a relic of a metaphysical past. This volume approaches transcendence from a particular perspective: that of language and literature seen as a matrix of expression of transcendence and its interplay of immanence. The essays in this volume probe the poetic and literary devices through which transcendence has been solicited, evoked, and generated. This has also meant revisiting the long Christian tradition, not simply to rehabilitate it but as an indispensable source for present writing and thinking.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Elisa Heinämäki, P.M. Mehtonen, and Antti Salminen: Literary Beyonds: An Introduction Part I: Poetics of Mysticism Daniel Acke: Non‐Religious Mysticism: Between Immanence and Transcendence Antti Salminen: Writing Through the Transcendence: On Paul Celan’s Mysticism Kent L. Brintnall: Transcribing Desire: Mystical Theology in Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts Part II: Transcendence and Language Shira Wolosky: Transcendence and Poetics: Levinas, Ricoeur, Frost William Franke: Language and Transcendence in Dante’s Paradiso Part III: Tropes of Transcendences Elisa Heinämäki: The Original Analogy: Mediating Transcendence in The Man Without Qualities Jarkko Toikkanen: Transcendental Puppets: Kant and Kleist Hanna Mäkelä: Horizontal Rivalry, Vertical Transcendence: Identity and Idolatry in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History Index of Names Index of Subjects Contributors
