It is a recent trend that critics compare literary texts to find what they have in common This was caused by Derrida to a great extent who demonstrated that every text was interwoven like a spider web Interestingly, William Faulkner, an American novelist of the early 20th century, gave a similar opinion of this point When Faulkner was asked if his As I Lay Dying was a subtle..
Viewed from the Christian imagination, the aspect of poetry in post war times has the same Original Sin consciousness as a matter of human existence The poets in post war times reveal poetic fantasy in the course of escaping from such a state of Original Sin This study forms the poetic imagination of post war poetry in aspect of human existence with poetry of Kim Jong-Sam, Ki..
This article is intended to investigate the so-called biblical concept ``a corn of wheat`` in The Master and Margarita Physical and spiritual death of main heroes in The Master and Margarita shows a Christian thought The main message of this novel is focused on that bible phrase a corn of wheat doesn`t fall into the ground nor die, it remains alone but if it die, it brings ..
Many Greene critics maintain Graham Greene is a heretic some say he presents Christ`s image in The Power and the Glory Is it possible a heretic writer portrays Christ`s image in his novels In this essay I aim at solving the problem that seems to be contradictory In The Power and the Glory, Greene presents a priest persecuted by the Communists In the peaceful days, he was p..
We can easily feel, from Sowol`s works, the despair and the grievance of his personal life Many of us say that the hardship of Japanese colonization melted into his works as despair, nihility, forgetfulness and resignation And, finally, people jump into conclusion that the nihility and the resignation are the values of Confucianism and the reflections of oriental view of l..
Jerusalem is the greatest epic poem among William Blake`s poetic works But lengthy critical works on Jerusalem are few, probably due to the difficulty of the poem, which presumes a thorough familiarity with Blake`s earlier poetry Most studies remain at the level of establishing the epic`s coherence and making it scrutable Blake made it clear that the nature of his poetic w..
Imagination is central to Helen Maria Williams`s approach to poetry and to her literary world Even so, the relationship between the romantic imagination and the notion of divine sensibility has not been given sufficient attention To be human, for Williams, is to be imaginative and creative Williams`s imagination has a special power that enables the self to escape its own ..
This article is to pursue how Eliot dramatizes his personal faith in A Journey of Magi and A Song for Simeon which are Ariel Poems Eliot wrote after his conversion in 1927 These two poems are common not only in treating the religious themes concerned with Christ`s Birth and Death but also in using the dramatical, symbolical devices In both poems Eliot adopts the well-known..
Genre of hagiography in the history of Russian literature originally belongs to ancient literature, but it was reborn owing to resurrecting period of spiritual culture in the early of 20th centuries These phenomena appeared especially in literature in exile Writers in exile, watching solidification of Soviet regime, began to forebode severe reality that the life in exile..
The interaction between body and soul for heightening spiritual inspiration was a great concern in muscular Christianity which was blooming in the 19th century England As a strong apologist of the muscular Christianity, Thomas Hughes greatly emphasized the importance of healthy male bodies and physical trainings in his boarding school series However, his description of i..