The Dark Dove by Eugene Webb PAPERBACK 9780295994390

The Dark DoveThe Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature\nAuthor(s): Eugene Webb\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295994390, 978-0295994390\nSynopsis\nIn a subtle exposition of the tension between sacred and secular themes in twentieth-century literature, Eugene Webb analyzes works by Yeats, Mann, Rilke, Stevens, Beckett, Joyce, Nietzsche, Eliot, Auden, and Ibsen. He demonstrates the connection between modern literature and religious tradition, and shows how conceptions of the sacred and its relation to the secular have been transformed in modern literary imagery.\n\nWebb considers the writers he discusses to be the true explorers of their generation, who have had to find a new symbolic language in which to understand and express their \""idea of the holy.\"" Because the sacred consists of \""additude\"" and \""experience\"" as well as \""concept,\"" Webb maintains that it receives its most dir.