Shades of Bliss: Imagining Heaven in Wallace Stevens and Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur's "A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra" describes fountains which embody different conceptions of human virtue expressed in contrasting religious systems. Wallace Stevens's "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" similarly contrasts conceptions of vir...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2019]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 68, Issue: 2, Pages: 252-271 |
IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture NBE Anthropology |
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Richard Wilbur
B Nietzsche B Longing B Wallace Stevens B Freud |
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Summary: | Richard Wilbur's "A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra" describes fountains which embody different conceptions of human virtue expressed in contrasting religious systems. Wallace Stevens's "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" similarly contrasts conceptions of virtue with reference to worship-spaces taken as embodying the assumptions of competing religious systems. Stevens's speaker reaches the somewhat Nietzschean, somewhat Freudian conclusion that religious practice merely projects human desires; differences are relatively meaningless. Wilbur's speaker, developing Christian theological openness to the other, concludes that the differences between religions make possible a productive complementarity. |
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ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333118772172 |