Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Scott, Nathan A.

Description

1. xiv, 431 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. Treats in relation between Christianity and art in general as well as Christian thought in literature.

Subject

1. Christianity in literature
2. Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
3. Christianity and literature
4. Literature > Theory, etc
5. Christendom
6. Letterkunde
7. Christelijke literatuur

Genre/Form

1. Literature.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Towards a Christian aesthetic / Dorothy Sayers -- Art and sacrament / David Jones -- Denis de Rougemont / Religion and the mission of the artist / Denis de Rougemont -- Postscript: Christianity and art / W.H. Auden -- The writer as Christian / Malcolm Ross -- The symbolic imagination : the mirrors of Dante / Allen Tate -- The theological imagination / William F. Lynch -- The modern experiment in criticism : a theological appraisal / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- Criticism and theological standards / Vincent Buckley -- The autonomy of the work of art : modern criticism and the Christian tradition / G. Ingli James -- The Jinnee in the well-wrought urn / Walter J. Ong -- Religion and literature / T.S. Eliot -- Poetry and morals : a relation reargued / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. -- A Christian theory of dramatic tragedy / Preston T. Roberts, Jr. -- Comedy / Christopher Fry -- Truth and the art of the novel / D.S. Savage -- Poetry and crisis / Martin Turnell -- The finality of the drama / Gabriel Marcel -- Theological reflections on cinema / Harvey G. Cox -- The death of the imagination / Elizabeth Sewell -- The image of man in modern European literature / Charles Moeller -- Art and theological meaning / Amos N. Wilder.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 420-431.