LEADER 04727cam 2200601 i 4500001 ocn826456700 003 OCoLC 005 20170725092201.0 008 130131s2013 scu b s001 0 eng 010 2012048820 019 822227572859404568 020 9781611172430 |q(hardbound ; |qalk. paper) 020 1611172438 |q(hardbound ; |qalk. paper) 024 8 40022647439 035 (Sirsi) 99971407002 035 99971407002 035 (OCoLC)826456700 |z(OCoLC)822227572 |z(OCoLC)859404568 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dTLE |dYDXCP |dYUS |dBTCTA |dCHVBK |dVLR |dZLM |dOCLCF |dCDX |dOCL |dOCLCQ |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e-uk-en 050 00 PR6001.U4 |bZ815 2013 082 00 811/.52 |223 100 1 Schuler, Stephen J. |=^A1330277 245 14 The Augustinian theology of W.H. Auden / |cStephen J. Schuler. 264 1 Columbia, S.C. : |bUniversity of South Carolina Press, |c[2013] 300 213 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index. 505 0 Introduction -- Evil as privation -- Physical existence as good -- Eros and agape -- Human nature and community -- Poetry and truth. 520 "When W.H. Auden returned to Christianity in the early 1940s, he identified himself with what he called an 'existential' method of spiritual and literary inquiry, which the writings of St. Augustine helped him define as a mode of thinking that not only allows for human subjectivity, but emphasizes the hopes, fears, needs, desires, and anxieties of the individual. Augustine thus became for Auden a model of a thinker who seamlessly merged psychological reflection with philosophical speculation and theological insight, and it is this combination of introspection and theoretical investigation that shapes much of Auden's later poetry. The Augustinian Theology of W.H. Auden illustrates that Augustine's thought is a major influence on Auden's postconversion poetry and prose. Auden encountered Augustine both directly, through his reading of the Confessions, and indirectly, through several of Auden's contemporaries, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Charles Norris Cochrane, and Charles Williams. Stephen J. Schuler argues that Augustine provided Auden with the language of privation to describe the nature of moral and social evil, enabling him to make sense of the pervasive anxieties produced by World War II. Augustine's works also offered Auden a rationale for his intuition that the physical world, and especially the human body, is intrinsically good. Auden's struggle to reconcile the implications of his Augustinian theology with his attitudes toward romantic love and sexuality are explained by Schuler, who demonstrates how the Augustinian theology of Reinhold Niebuhr helped shape Auden's ideas about human identity and community, which is defined and maintained by love in all its various forms. Finally, Schuler analyzes Auden's Augustinian view of the ethics of poetry. By examining the presence of Augustinian ideas in Auden's poetry and prose, Schuler establishes the Augustinian origins of several crucial but often misunderstood features of Auden's work as well as the importance of Augustine in shaping and articulating the concerns of Auden's later poetry."--Jacket. 600 10 Auden, W. H. |q(Wystan Hugh), |d1907-1973 |xReligion. |=^A27033 600 00 Augustine, |cof Hippo, Saint, |d354-430 |xInfluence. |=^A15441 600 17 Auden, W. H. |q(Wystan Hugh), |d1907-1973. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00035314 |?UNAUTHORIZED 600 07 Augustine, |cSaint, Bishop of Hippo. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00061554 |?UNAUTHORIZED 600 17 Auden, Wystan H., |d1907-1973. |2gnd |?UNAUTHORIZED 600 17 Augustinus, Aurelius, |d354-430. |2gnd |?UNAUTHORIZED 650 0 Theology in literature. |=^A141094 650 0 Christianity and literature |zEngland |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A1236252 650 7 Christianity and literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00859681 650 7 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 Religion. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01093763 650 7 Theology in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01149615 651 7 England. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01219920 |?UNAUTHORIZED 650 7 Theologie. |2gnd 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 949 |i30372016637818 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s49.95 |tJoyner48 |uJWST |zUSD 596 1 998 4678054