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02634aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 D39CF930166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191204010031 008 180614t20192019stk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1474447236 020 $a 9781474447232 020 $a 1474447228 020 $a 9781474447225 020 $a 1474447201 020 $a 9781474447201 035 $a (OCoLC)1039936465 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d QGE $d OSU $d VT2 $d NUI $d CBY $d BNG $d ZYU $d OUP $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6037 P29 Z598 2019 100 1 $a Craig, Cairns $e author. 245 10 $a Muriel Spark, existentialism and the art of death / $c Cairns Craig. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a viii, 224 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Living next door to death -- Resisting realism -- Kierkegaard: the limits of the aesthetic -- Negating Sartre -- Repetition -- The geopolitics of the personal -- The art of death -- Index. 520 $a Proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Søren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations. Because of the prominence, after the Second World War, of the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, it is often forgotten that existentialism was originally a Christian philosophy, shaped by followers of Kierkegaard such as Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel. The author traces in Spark's writings both the influence of Kierkegaard and of Spark's resistance to Sartre's co-option of existentialism to an atheistic agenda. Kierkegaard's analysis of the nature of the "aesthetic" as a false mode of existence that has to be transcended by the ethical and then by the religious provides a fundamental structure for Spark's satirical analyses of the failings of the modern world. 600 10 $a Spark, Muriel $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Spark, Muriel $x Themes, motives. 600 10 $a Spark, Muriel $x Religion. 600 10 $a Kierkegaard, Søren, $d 1813-1855 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Christianity and existentialism in literature. 650 0 $a Christianity and existentialism. 600 17 $a Kierkegaard, Søren, $d 1813-1855. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00037558 600 17 $a Spark, Muriel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00052654 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303021911.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213023223.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D39CF930166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search