THE ONTOTHEOLOGY OF THE LITERARY AESTHETIC: HISTORICAL AND SYSTEMATIC ASPECTS
In spite of Deconstruction or New Historicism there have been number of efforts in Eighties and Nineties to re-establish a metaphysics or even religion of the literary work of art. This article proposes to carry some of the historical and structural preconditions of these attempts. For this purpose...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1998
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Literature and theology
Year: 1998, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 294-304 |
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| Summary: | In spite of Deconstruction or New Historicism there have been number of efforts in Eighties and Nineties to re-establish a metaphysics or even religion of the literary work of art. This article proposes to carry some of the historical and structural preconditions of these attempts. For this purpose the ‘Onteotheology’ of literature is tracked back to the aesthetic rhetorization of religious language following the protestant abolition of those ritual practices during the Reformation which hiherto had ensured God's substantial and Real Presence in the world. Starting out from sidney's poetics, the article then focuses on the formal features of literature which may have been able to compensate for the growing modern consciuosness of the contingency of the extraneous reference God and therefore, the world itself. These are above all, as can be shown, self-reference energeia, ‘substantially’ and the spacio-temporal closure of form Furthermore the paper briefly discusses the concept of ‘otherness’ and concludes with a short speculation on the possibility of theology on the postmodern age of difference. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/12.3.294 |