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The beauty that saves : essays on aesthetics and language in Simone Weil / John M. Dunaway and Eric O. Springsted, editors.ord by Vladimir Volkoff.

Contributor(s): Dunaway, John M, 1945- | Springsted, Eric O
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 1996Description: xvi, 229 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0865545006Subject(s): Weil, Simone, 1909-1943 -- Aesthetics | Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century | Weil, Simone, 1909-1943 -- Contributions in language philosophy | Language and languages -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 111/.85/092 LOC classification: B2430.W474 | B43 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-219) and index.
Contents:
Contradiction, mystery and the use of words in Simone Weil / Eric O. Springsted -- The Language of the marketplace and the language of the nuptial chamber: the theological significance of a distinction in the philosophy of language / Heinz Robert Schlette -- Simone Weil and the limits of language / J.P. Little -- The Nature of narrative in Simone Weil's vision of history: the need for new historical roots / Christine Ann Evans -- Trésor éparpillé: the treasure of scattered texts in works by René Char and Simone Weil / Joan Dargan.
Sacramental tension: divine transcendence and finite images in Simone Weil's literary imagination / Thomas Werge -- Simone Weil on morality and literature / John M. Dunaway -- The Tragic poetics of Simone Weil / Katherine T. Brueck -- Simone Weil and Music / Michel Sourisse.
Simone Weil and Wallace Stevens: the notion of decreation as subtext in 'An Ordinary evening in New Haven' / James R. Lindroth -- The Character of Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera / Diogenes Allen -- The Love of god and man's suffering: Simone Weil and Georges Bernanos / William S. Bush -- Simone Weil and Shakespeare's fools / Martin Andic.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange B2430.W474 B43 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902094537

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-219) and index.

I. Simone Weil on language. Contradiction, mystery and the use of words in Simone Weil / Eric O. Springsted -- The Language of the marketplace and the language of the nuptial chamber: the theological significance of a distinction in the philosophy of language / Heinz Robert Schlette -- Simone Weil and the limits of language / J.P. Little -- The Nature of narrative in Simone Weil's vision of history: the need for new historical roots / Christine Ann Evans -- Trésor éparpillé: the treasure of scattered texts in works by René Char and Simone Weil / Joan Dargan.

II. Simone Weil on aesthetic theory. Sacramental tension: divine transcendence and finite images in Simone Weil's literary imagination / Thomas Werge -- Simone Weil on morality and literature / John M. Dunaway -- The Tragic poetics of Simone Weil / Katherine T. Brueck -- Simone Weil and Music / Michel Sourisse.

III. Weilian interpretations of art. Simone Weil and Wallace Stevens: the notion of decreation as subtext in 'An Ordinary evening in New Haven' / James R. Lindroth -- The Character of Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera / Diogenes Allen -- The Love of god and man's suffering: Simone Weil and Georges Bernanos / William S. Bush -- Simone Weil and Shakespeare's fools / Martin Andic.

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