Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to LiteratureCrossway, 31.01.2013 - 256 Seiten Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good—to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read—from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how the major genres of literature communicate. He explores ways comedy, tragedy, realism, and fantasy can portray the Christian worldview. These discussions lead to a host of related topics—the value of fairy tales for children, the tragic and the comic sense of life, the interplay between Greek and Biblical concepts in the imagination, and the new "post-modernism" (a subject of vital importance to Christians). In the pages of this book, readers will meet writers, past and present who carry on a great literary tradition. By supporting worthy authors, Christians can exert a powerful influence on their culture. |
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... characters' sexual activities rendered in breath- less prose. Or other covers might invite us to try other successful formulas: the evil child (a cute little girl with malevolent eyes stares out from the cover, holding a doll in one ...
... characters are predictable stereotypes; the plots are churned out according to a formula; the styles are ludicrous or inept. These books give their readers almost nothing of value for their invest- ment of money and time. Such books ...
... characters and are gladdened by their vic- tories and saddened by their tragedies. Reading provides mental train- ing for empathizing with real people. Reading offers vicarious experience. We can have the sensation of experiencing ...
... character commit suicide or murder, the violent action was never shown. Rather, the characters affected simply left the stage; later a mes- senger came to report the horrible news. Why this reticence? The Greeks were hardly prudish or ...
... characters' actions and anguish in language of exalted poetry, but never explicitly presenting the horrors onstage. Obscenity is not only a moral fault; as the Greeks understood, it is also an artistic fault. Insensitivity to aesthetic ...
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Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature Gene Edward Veith Jr Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature Gene Edward Veith Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |