Description
| Product ID: | 9781108483896 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Ted Hughes and Christianity |
| Authors: | Author: David Troupes |
| Page Count: | 262 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Christianity, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Christianity |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Ted Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets, and this book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Christian faith. It will be of interest not only to Hughes specialists, but anyone interested in how religious poetry can and must operate within an increasingly secular culture. Ted Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Christian faith, revealing his critically-endorsed paganism as profoundly and productively engaged with all the essentials of Christian thought. Hughes''s intense criticism of the Reformation, his interest in restoring the Virgin Mary to her pre-Christian status as divine mother-goddess, his attempts to marry evolutionary science and scripture with a biological interpretation of the fall, his endorsement of the cross as the central symbol of the human condition, and the role of Christ in his myth of Sylvia Plath are among the many topics explored. Along the way, Troupes establishes strong thematic and intertextual links between Hughes and the American Transcendentalist tradition - a tradition which offers moments of vital illumination of Hughes''s religious themes while encouraging a more generous trans-Atlantic appreciation of Hughes''s literary affiliations. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-07-04 |