Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations. Acquisto claims that Baudelaire inaugurates a new kind of amodern modernity by canceling the notion of salvation in his writing while also refusing to embrace any of its secular equivalents, such as historical progress or redemption through art.
Through a series of "interhistorical" readings that put literary and critical writers from the last 150 years in...
Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions o...
Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations. Acquisto claims that Baudelaire inaugurates a new kind of amodern modernity by canceling the notion of salvation in his writing while also refusing to embrace any of its secular equivalents, such as historical progress or redemption through art.
Through a series of "interhistorical" readings that put literary and critical writers from the last 150 years in...
Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions o...
This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.
This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important n...
