Secular scriptures : modern theological poetics in the wake of Dante /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Franke, William (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Series:	Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
Subjects:	Poetry > Religious aspects Religion and literature. Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Religion.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Dante and the secularization of religion through literature
"Enditynges of worldly vanitees": truth and poetry in Chaucer as compared with Dante
Prophecy eclipsed: Hamlet as a tragedy of knowledge
Blind prophecy: Milton's figurative mode in Paradise Lost and in some early poems
The logic of infinity in European Romanticism: Blake or Leopardi?
The linguistic turning of the symbol: Baudelaire and his French symbolist heirs
"The missing all": Emily Dickinson's apophatic poetics
The dialectical logic of William Butler Yeats's Byzantium Poems
The religious vocation of secular literature: Dante and postmodern thought.