The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature

by Eugene Webb

Book Overview

In a subtle exposition of the tension between sacred and secular themes in twentieth-century literature, Eugene Webb analyzes works by Yeats, Mann, Rilke, Stevens, Beckett, Joyce, Nietzsche, Eliot, Auden, and Ibsen. He demonstrates the connection between modern literature and religious tradition, and shows how conceptions of the sacred and its relation to the secular have been transformed in modern literary imagery.

Webb considers the writers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295953772
• ISBN13: 9780295953779
• Release Date: May 1975
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"