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The sacred desert : religion, literature, art, and culture / David Jasper

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004Description: xix, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781405119740 (cased)
  • 9781405119740 (cased)
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Contents:
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 : travellers 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
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index

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 : travellers 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

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.

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