Name: The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)
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Author: M. B. Pranger
ISBN: 9780804745246

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The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Author

M. B. Pranger

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0804745242

ISBN13

9780804745246

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Synopsis "The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture) "

The writings of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) reveal how the monastic mind, oscillating between hope and despair, was absorbed in technical exercises rather than in religious emotions. Early on monasticism had developed procedures for “ruminating on” the Bible and the works of the Church Fathers. Applying the art of logic to this theme, Anselm offers a denser version of monastic meditation that constitutes a poetics of monastic literature. Before engaging Anselm’s works, this book addresses texts―by Gregory the Great, Bernard of Clairvaux, Rupert of Deutz, and Richard of St. Victor―based on the same principles. In them, the potentially violent nature of an existence in which time has almost come to a halt manifests itself in a vision of the act of reading as a struggle with the text and as violent, amorous passion. The book then traces the decline of the monastic poetical principle in the writings of John of the Cross, Pierre de Bérulle, Calvin, and Ignatius of Loyola. A concluding chapter on Ignatius and James Joyce shows how the poetics of monasticism both survives and is exiled in modernist literature.

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