Believing in Poetry
This article interrogates the phrase ‘Believing in poetry’, whose usefulness is to make one reflect on the relation between its two meanings. It therefore asks the following questions. Can one distinguish, ultimately, believing in poetry, crediting poetry with a distinct and important function, from...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 10-19 |
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| Summary: | This article interrogates the phrase ‘Believing in poetry’, whose usefulness is to make one reflect on the relation between its two meanings. It therefore asks the following questions. Can one distinguish, ultimately, believing in poetry, crediting poetry with a distinct and important function, from living one’s belief, especially religious, in poetry, in the act of writing or reading? In what sense can one believe in poetry if one believes above all in, say, Christianity? In being something other than the assertion of religious platitudes, or novelties, in verse, how does the poetry of a believer arise from his belief, and how does it embrace and modify his sense of what poetry is? In short: how should one believe in poetry? How might one believe, in poetry? |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frq066 |