Sacred Desert Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture

Name: Sacred Desert Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture
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ISBN: 9781405119757

ISBN-10: 1405119756

ISBN-13: 9781405119757

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Jasper

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Reflects on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film. Engaging with figures as diverse as Jesus, William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jim Crace, author David Jasper explores deserts as real places, as interior spaces and as they feature in numerous texts.

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Plates


Foreword



Preface



Introduction: Meeting Points



The Bible, Schoenberg, and Heidegger



The Desert Fathers: Wanderings and Miracles



Time and Memory, Wind and Space: The Desert and Mysticism



Mysticism and Modernity: Thomas Merton Meets Don Cupitt



The Literature of the Desert, I: Travelers and Poets



The Literature of the Desert, II: Novelists



Artists: Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Viola, and American Abstract Expressionism



Films of the Desert: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis



Desert Theology and Total Presence: The Poets William Blake and Yves Bonnefoy Meet Hegel and Tom Altizer



Conclusion: Meeting Point


Postscript: The Desert and the Recent Wars in Iraq


Bibliography


Index