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The literary process is a highly cognitive passage through the finite and definite realities of humans and the world, says Catholic philosopher and critic Lynch (1908-87), and any effort to keep literature in its rightful relationship with the human and the real is a service to truth, civilization, and literature itself. The title is his proclamation of a new model to replace Nietzsche and Spengler's Dionysus and Apollo. This is a reprint of a 1960 work published by Sheed and Ward, New York. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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William F. Lynch, S.J. (1908-1987) was born and educated in New York City, taking his doctorate from Fordham University in 1942 and later teaching at Georgetown University. In the early 1950s he became the editor of Thought, a leading Catholic journal of the time. Besides Christ and Apollo, Lynch's works of philosophy and criticism include The Image Industries, The Integrated Mind, and Christ and Prometheus.
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"Theologian Lynch, in short, is an existentialist. But existence does not lead him, like Sartre, to nausea, but, like David, to dance before the ark."
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Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination. With a new Introduction by Glenn C. Arbery.
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Original softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. XL, 371 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally stained edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Minimal angeschmutzter Schnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Christ and Apollo, originally published in 1960, is a classic of literary criticism, a book that Commonweal once predicted "may well change the course of literary studies." It did not do that, of course: its literary, philosophical, and theological presuppositions were too much at odds with those of the ruling theoretical paradigms. But that is precisely what makes it a volume worth returning to. In Christ and Apollo, William Lynch examines the Greek dramatists, Dante, Shakespeare, Proust, Camus, Graham Greene, and other writers in light of their affinities with two opposing tendencies. The symbol of the first approach is Apollo. For Lynch, this is the tendency to want to escape the finite, real world and the human condition of embodiment. The symbol of the other tendency is Christ, the Word made flesh. Artists working in this tradition give readers a glimpse of the infinite by working patiently and honestly with the materials of the finite world, in all its messy imprecision. For Lynch, limitation, or finitude, is the great human good. Praised by Flannery O'Connor, among others, Lynch's sophisticated work is in many ways an important elaboration of the New Criticism, avoiding that school of thoughts formalist excesses while providing it with firmer philosophical ground. For anyone interested in understanding what distinguishes great literature, Christ and Apollo is an essential text. - William F. Lynch, S.J. (1908-87) was born and educated in New York City, taking his doctorate from Fordham University in 1942 and later teaching at Georgetown University. In the early 1950s he became the editor of Thought, a leading Catholic journal of the time. Besides Christ and Apollo, Lynch's works of philosophy and criticism include The Image Industries, The Integrated Mind, and Christ and Prometheus. Glenn C. Arbery, poet, critic, and teacher, is the author of Why Literature Matters. ISBN 9781932236224 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 383. Seller Inventory # 1194845
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