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This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.
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"Atkins is a complete master of the literary works he discusses and the secondary criticism surrounding them. His citations from those works are succinct and just right; he is a brilliant reader and interpreter. His recovery of a religious Ezra Pound, for one, is ground breaking and controversial." - Will Willimon, Bishop, the United Methodist Church, Birmingham, Alabama and author of The Early Sermons of Karl Barth
"Literary Paths to Religious Understanding is a work that deals with important issues - important humanly and professionally. Its audience should be a wide one. Like Geoffrey Hartman towards the end of his career (with whom he has long acknowledged an affinity), Atkins seems to be stepping away from a narrowly scholarly path to explore issues that have stimulated him for some time, and that will also stimulate his readers." - Jan Gorak, Professor of English, University of Denver
About the author
G. DOUGLAS ATKINS is professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA and author or co-editor of thirteen books, including the forthcoming On the Familiar Essay (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literary Paths to Religious Understanding
Book Subtitle: Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White
Authors: G. Douglas Atkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230104174
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: G. Douglas Atkins 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62147-3Published: 13 January 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38342-9Published: 13 January 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10417-4Published: 07 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 170
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Literary History, Linguistics, general, Philosophy of Religion