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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... 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 injunc- tion (enforced more for stage versions than for written texts) in ...
... fictional world of the novel, the boy is being profane. And yet, O'Connor's novel is not being profane. She means the terms liter- ally and in their most sacred sense. The boy's profanity ironically reminds Hazel of the reality of Jesus ...
... fiction are legit- imate for Christians to read or to write. If God thought it proper to use them in Scripture, they have to be legitimate. Worldly rationalism might attack the practicality of fiction or the propriety of poetry, but ...
... fiction and poetry can also be helpful. Knowing the artistry involved in nonfiction, in supposedly “factual” writing, can help us to understand the hidden biases and worldviews implicit in any piece ofwriting. Such understanding can ...
... many sermons) only heightens its importance. Whether nonfiction involves facts or ideas, the author must choose which facts to include and which words to use. NONFICTION: The. Art. of. Truth-Telling. FICTION: The Art of Story-Telling.
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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 |