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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... play on the evening news. Political campaigns are managed by “image consultants,” and candi- dates are chosen for their charisma and the way they appear on TV rather than for their ideas and policies.10 American democracy was the ...
... play- by-play account of the 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 ...
... play with the obscene and the pornographic. Few of them are works of art, exploring the depths of human behavior. Most are simply trying to keep the readers' attention by titillating them with sex- ual fantasies, stirring scandals, and ...
... play. Specifically, Greek drama forbade presenting violence onstage. When the plot of a tragedy demanded that a character commit suicide or murder, the violent action was never shown. Rather, the characters affected simply left the ...
... play were not real, they reasoned. Therefore, for them to invoke God in a fictional context was insincere, false, and “in vain.” As a result, any explicit references to God were routinely censored.15 The playwrights would get around the ...
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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 |