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Toward a Theopoetics of Poetry

<p>This paper presents Theopoetics, a theo-philosophical aesthetic movement that arose from the 1960’s Death of God theology, as a hermeneutical framework that accounts for both embodiment and the numinous in poetry. Through an examination of the life and poetic works of the disenfranchised religious poet, Thomas Merton, and a more religiously nebulous poet, Denise Levertov. This paper will present two different perspectives from these poets who encountered the need to qualify the numinous in their poetry and subverted that qualification through a theopoetic process. </p>

  1. 10.25394/pgs.12226940.v1
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/12226940
Date01 May 2020
CreatorsZackry Michael Bodine (8787824)
Source SetsPurdue University
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, Thesis
RightsCC BY 4.0
Relationhttps://figshare.com/articles/Toward_a_Theopoetics_of_Poetry/12226940

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