Modernism and Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030615291)

This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in Christian theology from a transnational and interdenominational perspective. It offers a cultural history of the period, considering a wide range of literary and historical sources, including novels, drama, poetry, literary criticism, encyclicals, theological and philosophical treatises, periodical publications, and wartime propaganda. By contextualising literary modernism within the cultural, religious, and political landscape, the book reveals fundamental yet largely forgotten connections between literary and theological modernisms. It shows that early-twentieth-century authors, poets, and critics, including Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Czeslaw Milosz, actively engaged with the debates between modernist and neo-scholastic theologians raging across Europe. These debates contributed to developing new ways of thinking about the relationship between religion and literature, and informed contemporary critical writings on aesthetics and poetics.

Author: Joanna Rzepa
ISBN-10: 3030615294
ISBN-13: 9783030615291
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2021
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.00d