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But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man: Literature and Theodicy

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571 Seiten
Englisch
Stauffenburgerschienen am03.01.20051., Aufl.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of Mankind is Man . Despite this wise imperative expressed by Alexander Pope in his Essay on Man (1733-34), the need to vindicate the ways of God to Man has always interested the most intelligent minds in both philosophy and theology, among them Plato, Aristotle, St Augustine, William King, Leibniz, and Kant. Theodicy is the attempt to explain the paradoxical coexistence of suffering and Divine benevolence; why, theodicists ask, does God, who is believed to be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, permit evil to exist at all. The present volume studies the literary discussion of theodicy analysing a wide range of novels, dramas, and poetry from American, Canadian, Irish, English, French and German literatures. The essays - contributed by a team of internationally renowned scholars - discuss the poetic treatment of theodicy from the 17th and 18th centuries to the postmodern period: the catalogue of authors considered includes names such as Francis Bacon, John Milton, William King, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, John Fowles, Ian McEwan and Irvine Welsh, to name but a few. The book thus illustrates the close traditional affiliation between literature and theodicy and demonstrates that - at least during some phases of their common history - literature could be regarded as theodicy.mehr

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KlappentextKnow then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of Mankind is Man . Despite this wise imperative expressed by Alexander Pope in his Essay on Man (1733-34), the need to vindicate the ways of God to Man has always interested the most intelligent minds in both philosophy and theology, among them Plato, Aristotle, St Augustine, William King, Leibniz, and Kant. Theodicy is the attempt to explain the paradoxical coexistence of suffering and Divine benevolence; why, theodicists ask, does God, who is believed to be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, permit evil to exist at all. The present volume studies the literary discussion of theodicy analysing a wide range of novels, dramas, and poetry from American, Canadian, Irish, English, French and German literatures. The essays - contributed by a team of internationally renowned scholars - discuss the poetic treatment of theodicy from the 17th and 18th centuries to the postmodern period: the catalogue of authors considered includes names such as Francis Bacon, John Milton, William King, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, John Fowles, Ian McEwan and Irvine Welsh, to name but a few. The book thus illustrates the close traditional affiliation between literature and theodicy and demonstrates that - at least during some phases of their common history - literature could be regarded as theodicy.
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-86057-749-3
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
ErscheinungsortTübingen
ErscheinungslandDeutschland
Erscheinungsjahr2005
Erscheinungsdatum03.01.2005
Auflage1., Aufl.
ReiheZAA Studies
Reihen-Nr.20
Seiten571 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.11997800
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GenreLexika/Sprachen

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Aus dem Inhalt:RUDOLF FREIBURG, SUSANNE GRUSS, Erlangen-NürnbergIntroduction: Literature and Theodicy, Literature as Theodicy, p.1317th/18th CenturyJÜRGEN KLEIN, GreifswaldFrancis Bacon (1561-1626): Natural Philosophy as Theodicy, p.49SIMONE BRODERS, Erlangen-Nürnberg A True Poet, and of the Devil s Party - Theodicy and Paradox in John Milton s Paradise Lost, p.73HERMANN J. REAL, MünsterConversations with a Theodicist: William King s Essay on the Origin of Evil, with Some Sidelights on Hobbes, Milton, and Pope, p.85KEVIN L. COPE, Baton RougeThe Panorama of Theodicy, Or, Appealing Impressions of Evil in Assorted 18th-Century Descriptive Writers, with a View toward Leibniz, p.113BREAN S. HAMMOND, Nottingham The Print of a Man s Naked Foot : Do-It-Yourself Theodicy in Robinson Crusoe, p.131IAN SIMPSON ROSS, VancouverAspects of Hume s Treatment of the Problem of Evil , p.141JOHN A. BAKER, ParisWishful Thinking? Theodicy and the Divine Economy in Edward Young s Night Thoughts (1742-46), p.153BRUCE ARNOLD, GlenagearyAspects of Theodicy in Jonathan Swift s Work, p.171FLAVIO GREGORI, VeneziaGulliver s Myopic Reformation: Reason and Evil in Gulliver s Travels, p.181HOWARD D. WEINBROT, MadisonHearts of Darkness: Swift, Johnson, and the Narrative Confrontation with Evil, p.205RUDOLF FREIBURG, Erlangen-NürnbergThe Pleasures of Pain?: Soame Jenyns versus Samuel Johnson, p.225ARNO LÖFFLER, Erlangen-NürnbergGoldsmith and the Equal Dealings of Heaven : The Problem of Evil in The Vicar of Wakefield, p.24519th CenturyEBERHARD SPÄTH, Erlangen-Nürnberg Did He Smile His Work to See? : Blake and the History of Theodicy, p.261RICHARD MATLAK, Worcester, Mass.William Wordsworth s Elegiac Stanzas and Sir George Beaumont s Peel Castle in a Storm, p.279DIETER MEINDL, Erlangen-NürnbergMelville, Theodicy, and the Grotesque, p.289HEINZ-JOACHIM MÜLLENBROCK, GöttingenCharles Kingsley s Hereward the Wake: The Novelist as a Providential Historian, p.307HANS ULRICH SEEBER, StuttgartThe Fascination of Beauty and of Evil in Oscar Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), p.32120th CenturyGEORG LANGENHORST, Erlangen-NürnbergStruggling with God under the Sign of Job: Job in the English Literature of the 20th Century, p.339KRYSTYNA STAMIROWSKA, KrakówReaching the Heart of the Matter: Sin and Grace in the Novels of Graham Greene and François Mauriac, p.359RIA OMASREITER-BLAICHER, Erlangen-NürnbergThe Fortunate Fall: Sin and Sinners in Graham Greene s Novels, p.371BERNFRIED NUGEL, Münster A Kind of Early Christian Malignity : Aldous Huxley s Analysis of Evil in His Later Works, p.385GISELA SCHLÜTER, Erlangen-NürnbergThe Theodicy-Sequence in Albert Camus s La Peste, p.403SUSANA ONEGA, ZaragozaCamusian Existentialism and the Question of Evil in the Early Fiction of John Fowles, p.421MARTIN NICOL, Erlangen-NürnbergLiving with the Hidden God: The Individual s Suffering in Modern Poetry, p.441ERHARD RECKWITZ, EssenThe Evil State: Police Brutality in South African Fiction, p.455PETER PAUL SCHNIERER, HeidelbergViolent Redemptions: Negotiations of Evil in Contemporary British and Irish Drama, p.471ANNEGRET MAACK, Wuppertal Writing Moral Fiction in a Moral Vacuum : Ian McEwan s and Martin Amis s Fictional Worlds, p.485DIETER PETZOLD, Erlangen-NürnbergThe Problem of Evil in Modern (Anti-)Christian Fantasy Novels, p.501BARBARA KORTE, Freiburg God Keeps Disappearing : Anne Michaels s Fugitive Pieces: The Imperatives of Love and Beauty after the Holocaust, p.519SUSANNE GRUSS, Erlangen-NürnbergMegalomaniac Ice-Cream Cone, Sulking Mistress, Sadistic Slacker: God in Postmodern Narratives, p.533mehr

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