The Presence of Privation in Dana Gioia's "Homecoming"

In The City of God St. Augustine argues that “evil has no positive nature; what we call evil is merely the lack of something that is good.” Still, if evil has no positive nature, its very absence seems to become a presence each time an evil deed is done, a phenomenon Dana Gioia incarnates in his lon...

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Autore principale: Hren, Joshua (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Pubblicazione: 2025
In: Christianity & literature
Anno: 2025, Volume: 74, Fascicolo: 1, Pagine: 74-96
Notazioni IxTheo:CD Cristianesimo; cultura
NBC Dio
VA Filosofia
Altre parole chiave:B “Homecoming”
B Nietzsche
B St. Augustine
B Dana Gioia
B Nihilism
B The problem of evil
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