As the last collection of Cleanth Brooks's essays before his death, Community, Religion, and Literature represents his final, considered views on the reading of literature and the role it plays in our society. He argues that the proper and essential role of literature lies in giving us our sense of community. Yet he denounces the extent to which literature, too, is now being usurped by the critics who see writing as pure language. He believes that just as religion renders truth of another sort, so literature is an ...
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As the last collection of Cleanth Brooks's essays before his death, Community, Religion, and Literature represents his final, considered views on the reading of literature and the role it plays in our society. He argues that the proper and essential role of literature lies in giving us our sense of community. Yet he denounces the extent to which literature, too, is now being usurped by the critics who see writing as pure language. He believes that just as religion renders truth of another sort, so literature is an expression of the "truth about human beings." More and more in this age of science, literature has "assumed the burden of providing civilization with its values." Community, Religion, and Literature offers students of literature the opportunity to understand what Cleanth Brooks was actually saying, rather than what others have said he was saying.
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New. One knows, upon reading these essays, that with the death of Cleanth Brooks the literary world lost a powerful voice of wisdom and sanity. His careful meditation on the similarities and distinctions of function of religion and literature, his dissection of the dehumanizing self-destructiveness of structuralism and deconstructionism, his definition of the importance of the humanities in its nourishing of our understanding of our inner natures--all are advanced with a rare and winsome combination of confidence and humility. There is no cynicism, no scathing denunciation, Because he renders them needless and irrelevant; his readings of Eliot, Ransom, Yeats, Faulkner, Frost, Percy and many others open our minds to engage books and authors in their richness of experience and language, thus demonstrating the craft of criticism at its best. 334 pp.
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