Poets' Jesus Representations at the End of a Millennium

Name: Poets' Jesus Representations at the End of a Millennium
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ISBN: 9780195131147

ISBN-10: 0195131142

ISBN-13: 9780195131147

Edition: 2000

Authors: Peggy Rosenthal

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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…

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List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/4/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.29" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Jesus as Christ and More: The First Eighteen Centuries



Jesus as Romantic Hero



Sliding into Modernism: Jesus Pale and Shrunken



Crisis of the Secularized West: Postmodernism's Jesus as Antihero



Crucified Africa: The Politicized Jesus of Africa and Beyond



Archetypal Christ: Arabic Poetry and Other Wastelands



Jesus Absent



Between Absence and Presence: Playing Around with Jesus



Jesus Present


Notes


Permissions Acknowledgments


Notes on the Artists


Index