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Christ and Apollo The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination
Christ and Apollo The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination Author:William F. Lynch The Definite and the Dream — In this brilliant and boldly provocative book a creative theologian and critic penetrates the heart of literature, from the Greek dramatists, Dante, and Shakespeare to Proust, Greene, Camus, and O'Neill. — Father Lynch finds two currents running through literature. There is the current whose symbol is Apollo, and its ... more »work is the magnificent, the escapist, the facile dream of the nonhuman leap into the infinite. And the other is Christ, the Word made flesh. This current carries the imagination into the adventure of the definite, the athletic pursuit of full humanity through a courageous confrontation with the finite, the limited, the real.« less