Poetry and revelation : for a phenomenology of religious poetry /
Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience, whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, second- or third-hand experience. This book proposes that the best tools for thinking through &#...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience, whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, second- or third-hand experience. This book proposes that the best tools for thinking through 'experience' are provided by phenomenology. "Poetry and Revelation" is the first study of religious poetry through a phenomenological lens, one that works with the distinction between manifestation (in which everything is made manifest) and revelation (in which the mystery is reveiled as well as revealed). Providing a phenomenological investigation of a wide range of 'religious poems,' some medieval, some modern, some written in English, others written in European languages, some from America, some from Britain and some from Australia, Kevin Hart provides a unique new way of thinking about religious poetry and the nature of revelation. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 329 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1472598318 9781472598318 9781472598325 9781472598332 1472598326 1472598334 |