The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a MillenniumOxford University Press, 2000 - 189 Seiten Poets have always been the medium through which a culture talks of, and to, its gods. Now, in this learned but lively commentary, Peggy Rosenthal shows us the astonishing range of poetic encounters with Jesus. With a special emphasis on twentieth-century poetry, Rosenthal draws from an unprecedented range of world poetry--from Africa, the Arab world, and the Far East to Latin America and the West--to give readers an understanding of how different times and different cultures have affected the way poets refigure Jesus and of how poets' fascination with the man from Nazareth transcends all barriers. She also demonstrates that, despite the twentieth century's self-definition as a secular and post-Christian epoch, it has produced poetry about Jesus of truly surprising quality and variety. Impeccably researched and extremely accessible, The Poets Jesus will strongly appeal to scholars of poetry and religion as well as for all general readers of poetry. |
Inhalt
Jesus as Christ and More The First Eighteen Centuries | 3 |
Jesus as Romantic Hero | 23 |
Sliding into Modernism Jesus Pale and Shrunken | 50 |
Crisis of the Secularized West Postmodernisms Jesus as Antihero | 69 |
Crucified Africa The Politicized Jesus of Africa and Beyond | 84 |
Archetypal Christ Arabic Poetry and Other Wastelands | 101 |
Jesus Absent | 112 |
Between Absence and Presence Playing Around with Jesus | 136 |
Jesus Present | 151 |
Notes | 174 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | 183 |
Notes on the Artists | 184 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absence African Arab Arabic Poetry Auden Baudelaire biblical Blake Blake's blood body Borges called century century's chapter Chinua Achebe Christ Christology church configurations of Jesus contemporary cosmic Cross Crucified Africa Crucifixion culture Czeslaw Milosz Darío death Denise Levertov Dillard's divine dramatizes Droste-Hülshoff earth Eliot empty Ephrem essay faith figure of Jesus flesh God's Goethe Gospel Hudgins human humankind hymn imagination Incarnation Jesus Absent Levertov literary lived Lord Marriage at Cana meaning metaphor Milosz modernism modernist mystery Nature negritude Péguy Péguy's person of Jesus play poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry political postmodern prayer present R. S. Thomas religion religious Renan Resurrection Rilke Rilke's role Romantic Romanticism secular Senghor sense soul spirit stage story Symbolist T. S. Eliot takes Testament theology Thomas's transcendent translated tree turn twentieth twentieth-century University Press Vassar Miller verse vision Waiting for Godot Waste Land Whitman Wivel Word writing York