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"As the last collection of Cleanth Brooks's essays before his death, Community, Religion, and Literature represents his final, considered views on the reading of literature and the role it plays in our society. He argues that the proper and essential role of literature lies in giving us our sense of community. Yet he denounces the extent to which literature, too, is now being usurped by the critics who see writing as pure language. He believes that...

"In the spring of 1999 distinguished literary critic Denis Donoghue inaugurated the Erasmus Lectures at the University of Notre Dame under the title Adam's Curse. This book is the text of those lectures, revised and extended."--Jacket.

A minister looks at the novels of J.K. Rowling to explore the positive message of Harry Potter and his magical world, explaining how the books offer insights into human character, relationships, priorities, values, and spirituality.

W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., and David Jones, major poets of the early twentieth century, were fully involved in the historic conflict between religion and science. Jacob Korg's study illuminates the manner in which they attempted to overcome the division between the two cultures - by incorporating elements of religious ritual as well as scientific experiment in their poems. Known primarily as innovators who devised new methods of artistic...