The Catholic Imagination In American Literature

Author : Ross Labrie
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826211101
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Imagination in American Literature written by Ross Labrie and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concluding chapter examines the significance of the corpus of Catholic American writing in the years 1940 to 1980, considering it parallel in substance to the body of Jewish American literature of the same period.

Author : Farrell O'Gorman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268102173
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination written by Farrell O'Gorman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O'Gorman presents a study of the role of Catholicism in American Gothic literature, exploring its influence as a religion without a country and its ability to permeate borders and American traditions.

Author : Andrew Greeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220854
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Imagination written by Andrew Greeley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the Catholic worldview, as distinguished from the Protestant perspective, discusses the central motifs of Catholicism including Sacrament, Salvation, and Community, linking these themes to Catholic art and culture and arguing that they encourage a perception of divine imminence.

Author : Eleanor Heartney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998956855
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Heretics written by Eleanor Heartney and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This redesigned, re-edited, illustrated new edition of the classic study "Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art" challenges conventional wisdom about the relationship of contemporary art and religion. It explores the Catholic roots of controversial artists and the impact of Catholicism on the 1990s Culture Wars.

Author : Michael P. Carroll
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401991
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination written by Michael P. Carroll and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael P. Carroll argues that the academic study of religion in the United States continues to be shaped by a "Protestant imagination" that has warped our perception of the American religious experience and its written history and analysis. In this provocative study, Carroll explores a number of historiographical puzzles that emerge from the American Catholic story as it has been understood through the Protestant tradition. Reexamining the experience of Catholicism among Irish immigrants, Italian Americans, Acadians and Cajuns, and Hispanics, Carroll debunks the myths that have informed much of this history. Shedding new light on lived religion in America, Carroll moves an entire academic field in new, exciting directions and challenges his fellow scholars to open their minds and eyes to develop fresh interpretations of American religious history.

Author : Alison Shell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139425382
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660 written by Alison Shell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. It discusses canonical figures such as Sidney, Spenser, Webster and Middleton, those whose presence in the canon has been more fitful, and many who have escaped the attention of literary critics. Among the themes to emerge are the anti-Catholic imagery of revenge tragedy and the definitive contribution made by Southwell and Crashaw to the post-Reformation revival of religious verse in England. Alison Shell offers a fascinating exploration of the rhetorical stratagems by which Catholics sought to demonstrate simultaneous loyalties to the monarch and to their religion, and of the stimulus given to the Catholic literary imagination by the persecution and exile so many of these writers suffered.

Author : J.F. Powers
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322233
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morte D'Urban written by J.F. Powers and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-05-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands. Father Urban soon bounces back, carrying God's word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. Yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end his greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover. First published in 1962, Morte D'Urban has been praised by writers as various as Gore Vidal, William Gass, Mary Gordon, and Philip Roth. This beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely Knight of Faith is among the finest achievements of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature.

Author : Dana Gioia
Publisher : Wiseblood
ISBN 13 : 9781505114379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Writer Today written by Dana Gioia and published by Wiseblood. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade Dana Gioia has emerged as a compelling advocate of Christianity's continuing importance in contemporary culture. His incisive and arresting essays have examined the spiritual dimensions of art and the decisive role faith has played in the lives of artists. This new volume collects Gioia's essays on Christianity, literature, and the arts. His influential title essay ignited a national conversation about the role of Catholicism in American literature. Other pieces explore the often-harrowing lives of Christian poets and painters as well as contemplate scripture and modern martyrdom.

Author : Andrew Greeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520232046
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Imagination written by Andrew Greeley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the Catholic worldview, as distinguished from the Protestant perspective, discusses the central motifs of Catholicism including Sacrament, Salvation, and Community, linking these themes to Catholic art and culture and arguing that they encourage a perception of divine imminence.

Author : Andrew Bolton
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396452
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Bodies written by Andrew Bolton and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the world’s greatest works of art. These masterworks have, in turn, fueled the imaginations of fashion designers in the 20th and 21st centuries, yielding some of the most innovative creations in the history of fashion. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination explores fashion’s complex and often controversial relationship with Catholicism by examining the role of spirituality and religion in contemporary culture. This two-volume publication connects significant religious art and artifacts to their sartorial expressions. One volume features images of rarely seen objects from the Vatican —ecclesiastical garments and accessories—while the other focuses on fashions by designers such as Cristobal Balenciaga, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Madame Grès, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeanne Lanvin, Claire McCardell, Thierry Mugler, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Gianni Versace. Essays by art historians and leading religious authorities provide perspective on how dress manifests—or subverts—Catholic values and ideology.