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...
| Pubblicato in: | Christianity & literature |
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2019]
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Christianity & literature
Anno: 2019, Volume: 68, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 252-271 |
| Notazioni IxTheo: | CD Cristianesimo; cultura NBE Antropologia |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Richard Wilbur
B Nietzsche B Wallace Stevens B Freud B Desiderio <motivo> |
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| Riepilogo: | 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 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333118772172 |