The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism

The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism
ISBN-10
0804745242
ISBN-13
9780804745246
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
366
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Author
M. B. Pranger

Description

In The Artificiality of Christianity, the author's primary goal is to distill from monastic literature a poetical tool that can be used to decipher the literary structure of religious texts; a secondary goal is to show the centrality of monasticism to the specific experiences of Christian reading.

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