In Search of the Absolute: Essays on Swedenborg and Literature - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0854481419 ISBN 13: 9780854481415

Casa editrice: Swedenborg Society, 2004

Riassunto

In Search of the Absolute: Essays on Swedenborg and Literature looks at the enduring influence of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg on poetry, drama, and short fiction in Europe and both North and South America. Swedenborg’s lingering presence in nineteenth-century English poetry is represented by essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, while his influence upon American literature is charted by studies of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. The collection also contains one of the first critical appraisals of Swedenborg’s significant impact upon the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges and an essay on the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. This volume, the third in the Journal of the Swedenborg Society series, contains the following six essays:

• H. J. Jackson, “‘Swedenborg’s Meaning Is the Truth’: Coleridge, Tulk, and Swedenborg”
• Anders Hallengren, “Swedenborgian Simile in Emersonian Edification”
• Richard Lines, “Swedenborgian Ideas in the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning”
• Anders Hallengren, “A Hermeneutic Key to the title Leaves of Grass”
• Lars Bergquist, “Subjectivity and Truth: Strindberg and Swedenborg”
• Emilio R. Báez-Rivera, “Swedenborg and Borges: the Mystic of the North and the Mystic in puribus”

Also included are an introduction by Stephen McNeilly, a chronology of Swedenborg, biographies of the essay subjects, and an index.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Edited by Stephen McNeilly, director of the Swedenborg Society, this volume includes contributions from the leading Coleridge scholar and professor of English at the University of Toronto, H. J. Jackson; the celebrated author, scholar, foreign affairs journalist and Harvard alumni Anders Hallengren; Swedenborg scholar Richard Lines; the prizewinning writer and former diplomat to the Vatican Lars Bergquist; and Emilio R. Báez-Rivera, associate professor at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Swedenborg Society
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0854481419
• ISBN 13: 9780854481415
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 124
• Redattore: Mcneilly Stephen
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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