Dynamics of Desacralization
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The idea of desacralization has become almost commonplace, attributing to the word the rejection of what is sacred. One might think that it is strictly connected to theology and its system, or suppose that it implies the relationship human beings have with anything that can express a denial of the spiritual part of life. The concept of desacralization has numerous meanings, either from a philosophical or a literary viewpoint. The scholars' investigation of Dynamics of Desacralization has made this collection of essays rich and varied, revealing new worlds the different authors have created. What they do is to narrate various types of desacralization interrogating the nature of novels, poems or works of art; certain aspects of being are revealed through various expressions, engaging the multiple levels and the meaning of desacralization providing an articulation and interpretation of it.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Guyonne Leduc: "The Stylistic Desacralization of Man in Britain in the [Sophia] Pamphlets (1739-1740)"
- Christopher Stokes: Desacralizing the Sign: Tooke, Stewart and Romantic Materialism
- Horne Tooke: The Diversions of Purley and the Disenchanted Sign
- John Stewart: The Revolution of Reason and the Dialectical Sign
- Materialism, Language, Romanticism
- Works cited
- Barbara M. Benedict: Satire, Sentiment and Desacralization: The Relic and the Commodity in Jane Austens Novels
- The Sacralization of the Object
- The Objectification of the Sacred
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- Paola Partenza: Alfred Tennyson's De-sacralization of the Afterlife
- Works cited
- Roger Ebbatson: Seeking "the Beyond": Desacralising/Resacralising Nature in Richard Jefferies
- Works cited
- John Fawell: An Earthy Sacredness: Maupassants and Van Goghs Christianized Materialism
- Maupassants Cynicism towards Religion
- Maupassant, Religion and Nature
- Maupassants Sensual Landscapes
- Van Gogh and Spirituality
- Van Gogh and Nature: "A Love of Things that Exist"
- Conclusion
- Simona Beccone: Displacement-Distortion Theory and the Desacralisation of Aesthetic Categories: the Case Study of Hardy's "Neutral Tones"
- Foveal vs. peripheral vision and the displacement-distortion model
- Displacement-distortion and the phenomenology of aesthetic experience and categorization
- Displacement-distortion and aesthetic sacralisation-desacralisation
- Repetition and entropy
- Thomas Hardy's "Neutral Tones"
- Defocusing
- Deformation: grotesque and horror
- Repetition
- Conclusions
- Works cited
- Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec: Geoffrey Hill's Serpents and Dragons
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- Esra Melikoglu: "Morpho Eugenia": The Individual Struggle for Self-Realisation and the Question of Morality in a Darwinian World Without God
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- Notes on Contributors
