The dark dove : the sacred and secular in modern literature /
by Eugene Webb.
- 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (271-276) and index.
The paradox of the sacred -- The tradition of the sacred in the West -- The ambiguities of secularization : modern transformations of the Kingdom in Nietzsche, Ibsen, Beckett, and Stevens -- The one and the many : the ambiguous challenge of being in the poetry of Yeats and Rilke -- A darkness shining in brightness : James Joyce and the obscure soul of the world -- The perilous journey to wholeness in Thomas Mann -- The way up and the way down : the redemption of time in T.S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" and Four quartets -- W.H. Auden : the ambiguity of the sacred -- Conclusion.
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