Issue 12.2

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Special Issue: Liturgy and Literature

Published: January 1979


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 12 essays, totalling 206 pages

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This bilingual special issue of Mosaic contains twelve essays that explore the intersection of liturgical writings and practices and literature. Chronologically moving from the medieval period into Modernism, these essays explore the aesthetic, philosophical, social, and symbolic import of liturgy for literature.

Middle English Literature and the Liturgy: Recent Reserch and Future Possibilities

Raymond St. Jacques

Christian Iconography in the Quest of The Holy Grail

Muriel Whitaker

The Liturgical Shepherds Play and the Origins of Christmas Drama

Thomas P. Campbell

La liturgie dans Les Miracles de Nostre Dame de Gautier de Coinci

Dominique Colombani

Models and Meanings for the Libro del Cavallero Zifar

Ronald G. Keightley

George Herbert: The Temple and The Book of Common Prayer

John E. Booty

Time and Liturgy in Donne, Crashaw, and T.S. Eliot

Paul G. Stanwood

"Herz und Mund un Tat und Leben": Some thoughts on Johann Sabastian Bach's Church Cantatas

Helmut K. Krausse

Avatar ou Etapes? La Religion de William Wordsworth d'après les Ecclesiastical Sonnets

Marius Perrin

The Aesthetic and Metaphysical Function of Liturgy in the Work of Eduardo Barrios

John Walker

The Liturgical Novels of Charles Williams

C.N. Manlove

The Anagogical Form of The Anathemata

Thomas Dilworth