Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction

Cesareo Bandera

Penn State Press, 1 nov. 2010

Índice

• Introduction: 1
• The Divine Comedy as a Contrasting Background: 11
• Christian Desacralization: 24
• The Trajectory of This Book: 37
• BEYOND PLATO: 43
• Platos Sacred Anxiety: 50
• Similarities and Differences: 63
• The Role of Poetry in an Increasingly Desacralized Reality: 72
• BEYOND ARISTOTLE: 89
• The Old Science and the Howls of Hungry Acheron: 97
• The Poetics and the Sacred: 105
• Francis Bacon the Herald: 114
• A Humble Way out of the Impasse: 127
• Sacrificial Levels in Virgils Poem: 133
• Palinuruss Deliberate Contradiction of Textual Evidence: 141
• The Inane Fury Between People Destined to Live: 147
• The End of the Poem and the Cry of the Victim: 153
• Beyond the Howls of Acheron: 166
• BEYOND THE EPIC MODEL: 175
• The Mixture of Christian and Pagan: 184
• Reviewing a Critical Commentary on the Orlando Furioso: 193
• The Existential Problematic of Calderonian Honor: 204
• HISTORICAL SIGNPOSTS: 233
• The Increasing Centrality of the Crucifixion in the Late: 245
• The Emergence of the NonSystemic and the Open: 252
• The Parallel Between Religious and Economic Alienation: 262
• The Metaphysical Subtleties and Theological Niceties: 264
• Human Consciousness and the First Form of Ideologists: 282
• Comparing Marx Virgil and the Great Modern Poets: 295
• Index: 313

Información bibliográfica

• Título: Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction
• Autor: Cesareo Bandera
• Editor: Penn State Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0271042052, 9780271042053