The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature

Webb, Eugene

ISBN 10: 0295953772 / ISBN 13: 9780295953779

Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., 1975

About this Item

I2 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has label on the lower spine, wrinkling and crease on some edges and corners, inside flaps glued to the fixed endpapers, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise very good. Book has some rubbing and wear on the cover edges, library stamping on the top and bottom page edges, loose endpapers, and title page, label and cardholder adhered on the back loose endpaper, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature
• Publisher: University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295953772
• ISBN 13: 9780295953779
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

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 he discusses to be the true explorers of their generation, who have had to find a new symbolic language in which to understand and express their "idea of the holy." Because the sacred consists of "additude" and "experience" as well as "concept," Webb maintains that it receives its most direct and adequate expression in works of imaginative literature, where imagery can combine the intellectual and emotional elements of the sacred and communicate them to the reader.

About the Author

Eugene Webb is professor emeritus in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.