Literature and the Gods

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Literature and the Gods

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Ka, a stunning summation of his lifelong study of the role of the gods in the human imagination. Based on the prestigious Weidenfeld Lectures Roberto Calasso gave at Oxford in May 2000, Literature and the Gods traces the return of pagan divinities to Western literature from their first reappearance at the beginning of the modern era to their place in the literature of our own time.

Calasso sets out to uncover the divineâ€” godly or otherwiseâ€”in specific texts, and finds it in what he calls "absolute literature." With its roots in early Vedic verse, absolute literature reached the apex of its expression during the period beginning with the German Romantics in 1798 and ending with MallarmÃ©'s death in 1898. But Calasso also discovers the divine in the work of ValÃ©ry, Auden, Yeats, Montale, Borges, and Nabokov, and he reveals how these writers, in their own very particular ways, were articulating the same unnameable thing. Finally, he delineates the timeless, ever-mysterious laws that surround the creative act itself.

With Literature and the Gods, Roberto Calasso profoundly deepens our understanding of our literary tradition. It is, itself, a literary masterpiece.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2001-03-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375411380

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2001-03-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375411380

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