@article{1434951,
      recid = {1434951},
      author = {Rzepa, Joanna},
      title = {Modernism and theology : Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot,  Czeslaw Milosz /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {Joanna Rzepa's Modernism and Theology forcefully upends  the provincial secularization thesis of Anglo-American  literary modernism by placing it in the larger  international and historical context of theological  modernism, showing how major writers from different  cultures and languages have explored and asserted the  primacy of spiritual and mystical elements of literature  over secularism and materialism. This revolutionary study  will have a lasting impact on future studies of literary  modernism and generate expansive scholarship and  revaluation in the field.' --Ronald Schuchard, General  Editor, The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot This is the first  book-length study to examine the interface between literary  and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive  account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in  Christian theology from a transnational and  interdenominational perspective. It offers a cultural  history of the period, considering a wide range of literary  and historical sources, including novels, drama, poetry,  literary criticism, encyclicals, theological and  philosophical treatises, periodical publications, and  wartime propaganda. By contextualising literary modernism  within the cultural, religious, and political landscape,  the book reveals fundamental yet largely forgotten  connections between literary and theological modernisms. It  shows that early-twentieth-century authors, poets, and  critics, including Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, and  Czesław Miłosz, actively engaged with the debates between  modernist and neo-scholastic theologians raging across  Europe. These debates contributed to developing new ways of  thinking about the relationship between religion and  literature, and informed contemporary critical writings on  aesthetics and poetics.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1434951},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61530-7},
}