Augustine And Literature

The influence of Christianity on literature has been great throughout history, as has been the influence of the great Christian Augustine. Augustine and Literature explores Augustine's influence on literature from the Middle Ages to the present day and discusses the implications of expressing Augustine's religious themes both in literature and in more directly theological works.

Introduction

1

(14)

Robert P. Kennedy

Kim Paffenroth

John Doody

Marylu Hill

Part One: Literature to the Sixteenth Century

The Weight of Love: Augustinian Metaphors of Movement in Dante's Souls

15

(22)

Phillip Cary

``Se ponne pisne Wealsteal Wise Gepohte'': An Augustinian Reading of the Early English Meditation the Wanderer

37

(26)

Mary Agnes Edsall

``There's a Divinity That Shapes Our Ends'': An Augustinian Reading of Hamlet

63

(34)

Eric Plumer

Part Two: Literature of the Seventeenth Century

St. Augustine and the Metaphysical Poets

97

(20)

Barry L. Craig

Eloquence for the Age of Enlightenment: Fenelon's St. Augustine

117

(22)

Christine A. Jones

Justifying the Ways of God and Man: Theodicy in Augustine and Milton

139

(18)

John Savoie

Part Three: Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Senescence of the World: Augustine's Idea of History and Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean

157

(22)

Thomas F. Bertonneau

``Descend That You May Ascend'': Augustine, Dostoevsky, and the Confessions of Ivan Karamazov

179

(36)

Paul J. Contino

``Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me'': Eucharist and the Erotic Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

215

(18)

Marylu Hill

``Words, Those Precious Cups of Meaning'': Augustine's Influence on the Thought and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.

233

(22)

Emily Taylor Merriman

A Season in Hell, or the Confessions of Arthur Rimbaud

255

(16)

Glenn Moulaison

Feminine Wisdom in Augustine and Goethe's Faust

271

(16)

Kim Paffenroth

Part Four: Twentieth-Century Literature

Faulkner's Augustinian Sense of Time

287

(14)

Seemee Ali

Augustinian Physicality and the Rhetoric of the Grotesque in the Art of Flannery O'Connor

301

(26)

Debra Romanick Baldwin

Marking the Frontiers of World War II with ``Stabilized Disorder'': Rebecca West Reads St. Augustine

327

(16)

Mary Anne Schofield

Confessional Ethics in Augustine and Ralph Ellison

343

(20)

Mark Shiffman

Bibliography

363

(24)

Augustine's Works Index

387

(8)

Author Index

395

(6)

Subject Index

401

(10)

About the Editors and Contributors

411

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Augustine And Literature

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