The Displaced Cathedral in Flaubert, James, Lawrence and Kafka

Engelberg, Edward

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“…Edward Engelberg has argued convincingly that, from the mid-nineteenth century into Modernism, major novelists often "feminized" the cathedral. Concomitant with their recognition that a collapse of faith had voided churches of their once enormous symbolic powers, writers ironically used cathedral scenes as sites of erotic encounter or suggestion, as well as to imply "a counterpoint between bourgeois reality" and an "outworn creed" (Engelberg, 1986;246 …”

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The spaces of truth and cathedral window light

Gillespie

1996

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A b stract T he spaces of tru th and c a th e d ral window light M ajor writers an d painters o f the Romantic perio d interpreted the church or cathedra! in its organic and spiritual dimensions as a complex expression o f a m atured Christian civilization. A rtists o f the m id-nineteenth century continued to produce both secular and religious variations upon this established referentiality. Although divergent uses reciprocally rein fo r c e d the fascination fo r the central imagery o f the church a n d its multiple contexts, they also came to suggest a deeper tension in Western developm ent between what the church had meant in an earlier Europe and what it might mean fo r late modernity. The threat o f a perm anent loss o f cultural values was an issue haunting Realist approaches. A crucial revision occurred when key Symbolist poets openly revived the first Rom antic themes but treated them as contents available to a decidedly post-

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Section: Iileralor 17(3) Nov 1996:93-1 Is Issn 0258-2279mentioning

confidence: 99%

The spaces of truth and cathedral window light

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The Displaced Cathedral in Flaubert, James, Lawrence and Kafka

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