Strindberg and the Quest for Sacred Theatre. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 26. By Theo Malekin
Theo Malekin has written a deeply learned book that reveals August Strindberg as a major figure in the theological crisis that has gripped Western Christianity since Nietzsche proclaimed the Death of God in The Gay Science (1882). The substance of the book is a series of close readings of the later...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Literature and theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 304 |
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| Summary: | Theo Malekin has written a deeply learned book that reveals August Strindberg as a major figure in the theological crisis that has gripped Western Christianity since Nietzsche proclaimed the Death of God in The Gay Science (1882). The substance of the book is a series of close readings of the later plays that followed Strindberg’s ‘reversion to Christianity’ in 1896 following the breakdown of what is called his ‘Inferno-crisis’., What emerges is a study of ‘sacred theatre’ suspended over the half-belief that is caught between the abyss of atheism and the insistent, internalized voice that calls beyond the tradition of Western metaphysics—an echo of the negative theology of the mystical tradition that looks back to Meister Eckhart and, further still, to Dionysius the Areopagite. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frq030 |