European Literature and Theology in the Twentieth Century: Ends of Time [Paperback]

The central themes of this collection of essays are the mystery of time past, present and future, and the problem of redemption. They are concerned with modern literature, with the threat of meaninglessness in the postmodern condition, and with the possibility of salvation. In an age of deferral and difference, this book addresses itself to eschatology and apocalypse, and redemption in, through, but particularly of, time itself. Hell and madness are never far away, yet the refiguration of time and the breaking in of the transcendent continue to suggest theological possibilities beyond the wastelands of the twentieth century. To those possibilities we look in hope.General Editor's Preface - Introduction - List of the Contributors - Music, Madness and Mephistopheles: Art and Nihilism in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus; G.Pattison - The Appropriation of Dostoevsky in the Early Twentieth Century: Cult, Counter-cult and Incarnation; C.Crowder - After Apocalypse: Some Elements in Late Lawrence; D.Mackenzie - Wyndham Lewis on Time; M.Jarrett-Kerr,Cr - Re-writing The Waste Land; M.Edwards - T.S.Eliot: Poetry, Silence and the Vision of God; P.Walker - The Very Dead of Winter: Notes Towards an Enquiry into English Poetry after Eliot; M.Alexander - Visions of Hell: Lowry and Beckett; F.Doherty - Samuel Beckett's Negative Way: Intimations of the `Via Negativa' in His Late Plays; M.Buning - Redemption and Narrative: Refiguration of Time in Postmodern Literature; I.Makarushka - Apocalyptic Fiction and the End(s) of Realism; R.Detweiler - IndexDAVID JASPER
COLIN CROWDER