OPENING THE EYE OF LOVE: James Purdy's Ethical Allegory

This essay examines James Purdy's 1975 ethical and allegorical religious novel, In A Shallow Grave, from the viewpoint of negative theology. Purdy's tendency toward negation of the conventional actual-world correspondences of mimetic realism has contributed to the misreading and undervalui...

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Main Author: Adams, Don (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dharmaram College 2020
In: Journal of Dharma
Year: 2020, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 341-356
Further subjects:B Benedict XVI
B Ethics
B Pseudo-dionysius
B Mimesis
B Love
B llegory
B James Purdy
B Negative Theology
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