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- catalog abstract "Writing the Incommensurable studies how the threat posed by the absence of an immanent God is explored in the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Mary Finn erects a theoretical framework in each chapter based on a pseudonymous work of Kierkegaard. In these works, Kierkegaard uses the discourses of philosophy, theology, and literature to plot the complicated path of a religious writer whose own impulse to write complicates - if it does not compromise - the religious vision she or he wants to communicate. The book is organized according to four Kierkegaardian categories: anxiety, lyric voice, repetition and radical choice. All four are responses to what Kierkegaard calls, the "incommensurable," the unnegotiable gap between subjectivity (and God) on the one hand and "actuality" on the other. This gap plagues the writer-believer while also enabling writing. In what dilemma, then, does a religious poet find herself or himself when out of the depths of personal doubt, lack of understanding, and religious inadequacy comes a literary success? Or this dilemma avoided by paradoxically refiguring failure as a measure of success, and, if so, can such a refiguring ever be fully trusted? As the notion of the subjective "self" acquires preeminence in the nineteenth century the particularized "writing self" is the entity Kierkegaard, Hopkins, and Rossetti fight to get beyond as religious believers. The futility of such an attempt results in a peculiar success: there is the writing itself, material evidence that the fight occurred, imbued with the pathos and beauty of all monuments erected to lost causes.".
- catalog contributor b3789001.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Writing the Incommensurable studies how the threat posed by the absence of an immanent God is explored in the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Mary Finn erects a theoretical framework in each chapter based on a pseudonymous work of Kierkegaard. In these works, Kierkegaard uses the discourses of philosophy, theology, and literature to plot the complicated path of a religious writer whose own impulse to write complicates - if it does not compromise - the religious vision she or he wants to communicate. The book is organized according to four Kierkegaardian categories: anxiety, lyric voice, repetition and radical choice. All four are responses to what Kierkegaard calls, the "incommensurable," the unnegotiable gap between subjectivity (and God) on the one hand and "actuality" on the other. This gap plagues the writer-believer while also enabling writing. In what dilemma, then, does a religious poet find herself or himself when out of the depths of personal doubt, lack of understanding, and religious inadequacy comes a literary success? Or this dilemma avoided by paradoxically refiguring failure as a measure of success, and, if so, can such a refiguring ever be fully trusted? As the notion of the subjective "self" acquires preeminence in the nineteenth century the particularized "writing self" is the entity Kierkegaard, Hopkins, and Rossetti fight to get beyond as religious believers. The futility of such an attempt results in a peculiar success: there is the writing itself, material evidence that the fight occurred, imbued with the pathos and beauty of all monuments erected to lost causes.".
- catalog extent "180 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Writing the incommensurable.".
- catalog identifier "0271008547 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Writing the incommensurable.".
- catalog isPartOf "Literature & philosophy".
- catalog isPartOf "Literature and philosophy".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Writing the incommensurable.".
- catalog subject "821/.809382 20".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English poetry 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 Religion.".
- catalog subject "Immanence (Philosophy) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Immanence of God in literature.".
- catalog subject "Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 Religion.".
- catalog subject "PR595.R4 F56 1992".
- catalog subject "Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 Religion.".
- catalog title "Writing the incommensurable : Kierkegaard, Rossetti, and Hopkins / Mary E. Finn.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".