The Sleep of Christ: Incarnation and the Queerness of Heresy in W. H. Auden’s “For the Time Being”
This article explores the circuitry between queerness, heresy, and materialist theology in a major literary work by W. H. Auden from the 1940s. Rather than banking on flights of erotic or ecstatic transcendence, Auden’s “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio” (1944) intimates queer sexuality as a...
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2014
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2014, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 543-570 |
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Heresy
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materialism
secularity
existentialism
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