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The holy fool : Christian faith and theology in J.M.R. Lenz /
J.M.R. Lenz is remembered as the most creative and original of Goethe's Strasbourg friends and, because of failures in his personal life, as a figure of pathos. The son of a Lutheran pastor who received a theological education at the university of Koenigsberg, Lenz was a religious thinker who s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | J.M.R. Lenz is remembered as the most creative and original of Goethe's Strasbourg friends and, because of failures in his personal life, as a figure of pathos. The son of a Lutheran pastor who received a theological education at the university of Koenigsberg, Lenz was a religious thinker who saw himself as prophet as well as poet. Timothy Pope's The Holy Fool is the first study of Lenz to consider how Christian faith shaped his literary theory and practice and was responsible for his unwise expectations about the increasingly secular world for which he wrote. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773571419 0773571418 1282861441 9781282861442 9786612861444 6612861444 |