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European Literature and Theology in the Twentieth Century

Ends of Time

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. David Jasper

    1. Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology, University of Durham, UK

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  2. Colin Crowder

    1. Lecturer in Systematic Theology, University of Durham, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Literature and Religion (SLR)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Music, Madness and Mephistopheles: Art and Nihilism in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus

    • George Pattison
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Appropriation of Dostoevsky in the Early Twentieth Century: Cult, Counter-cult, and Incarnation

    • Colin Crowder
    Pages 15-33

  4. After Apocalypse: Some Elements in Late Lawrence

    • Donald Mackenzie
    Pages 34-55

  5. Wyndham Lewis on Time

    • Martin Jarrett-Kerr CR
    Pages 56-69

  6. Rewriting The Waste Land

    • Michael Edwards
    Pages 70-85

  7. T. S. Eliot: Poetry, Silence and the Vision of God

    • Peter Walker
    Pages 86-104

  8. The Very Dead of Winter: Notes Towards an Enquiry into English Poetry after Eliot

    • Michael Alexander
    Pages 105-116

  9. Visions of Hell: Lowry and Beckett

    • Francis Doherty
    Pages 117-128

  10. Samuel Beckett’s Negative Way: Intimations of the Via Negativa in his Late Plays

    • Marius Buning
    Pages 129-142

  11. Redemption and Narrative: Refiguration of Time in Postmodern Literature

    • Irena Makarushka
    Pages 143-152

  12. Apocalyptic Fiction and the End(s) of Realism

    • Robert Detweiler
    Pages 153-183

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 184-191
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology, University of Durham, UK

    David Jasper

  • Lecturer in Systematic Theology, University of Durham, UK

    Colin Crowder

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DAVID JASPER
COLIN CROWDER

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