UID:
almafu_9959227173702883
Format:
1 online resource (167 pages).
ISBN:
0-8047-7955-4
Series Statement:
Cultural Memory in the Present
Content:
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism asks what happened when the world was shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated both their actions and beliefs. When Reformers gave up the doctrine of transubstantiation (even as they held onto revised forms of the Eucharist), they lost a doctrine that infuses all materiality, spirituality, and signification with the presence of God. That presence guaranteed the cleansing of human fault, the establishment of justice, the success of communication, the possibility of union with God and another, and love. These longings were not lost but displaced, Schwartz argues, onto other cultural forms in a movement from ritual to the arts, from the sacrament to the sacramental. Investigating the relationship of the arts to the sacred, Schwartz returns to the primary meaning of "sacramental" as "sign making," noting that because the sign always points beyond itself, it participates in transcendence, and this evocation of transcendence, of mystery, is the work of a sacramental poetics.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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I. POESIA MYSTICA --
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1. Sacramental Poetics --
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2. Mystical and Political Bodies --
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II. JUSTITIA MYSTICA --
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3. Shakespeare's Tragic Mass: Craving Justice --
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4. Milton's Cosmic Body: Doing Justice --
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III. AMOR MYSTICUS --
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5. Donne in Love: Communion of the Flesh --
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6. Herbert' s Praise: Communion in Conversation --
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Afterword --
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Notes --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-5833-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-5667-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804779555
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