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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... Mystery and Manners, copyright © 1969 by the Estate of Mary Flannery O'Connor. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Neil Postman, Teaching as a ConservingActivity (New York: Delacorte Press, 1979). Reprinted by ...
... mysteries (Dorothy Sayers and P. D. James). The problem is the way bad books are written: badly. Good books—even those written by non-Christians or dealing only with sec- ular themes—must be written according to the aesthetic laws that ...
... mystery thriller that is too exciting to put down—these are precious human experiences. That reading is also beneficial, that it can instruct us in various ways, is a pleasant side effect. Bad books can give us superficial gratification ...
... mystery of the sea, but actually living on a whaling boat might seem boring and brutal. Reading a medieval love poem may con- jure up the beauty of hopeless love, although no one enjoys having a broken heart in real life. Extreme ...
... mysteries, “adult” Westerns, family-saga romances, and works by “serious” writers. Such one-dimensional and predictable characters inhibit realism, complex- ity, and sophisticated aesthetic effects. As the readers' threshold of ...
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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 |