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The sacred desert : religion, literature, art, and culture
- Title
- The sacred desert : religion, literature, art, and culture / David Jasper.
- Author
- Jasper, David
- Publication
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
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- Description
- xix, 208 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : meeting points -- The Bible, Schoenberg, and Heidegger -- The desert fathers : wanderings and miracles -- Time and memory, wind and space : the desert and mysticism -- Mysticism and modernity : Thomas Merton meets Don Cupitt -- The literature of the desert, I : travelers and poets -- The literature of the desert, II : novelists -- Artists : Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Viola, and American abstract expressionism -- Films of the desert : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis -- Desert theology and total presence : the poets William Blake and Yves Bonnefoy meet Hegel and Tom Altizer -- Conclusion : meeting point.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-12691
- ISBN
- 1405119748 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 1405119756 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003019365
- OCLC
- vendor
- Author
- Jasper, David.
- Title
- The sacred desert : religion, literature, art, and culture / David Jasper.
- Imprint
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-12691