TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heavilin,Barbara A.
TI  - From an Existential Vacuum to a Tragic Optimism: The Search for Meaning and Presence of God in Modern Literature
SN  - 9781443863438 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PN56.G57 .H384 2013 
U1  - 809.93382 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - God in literature
KW  - Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Religion and literature
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Table of contents; abbreviations; abbreviations; illustration; preface; acknowledgements; introduction; abbreviations; part i; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; part ii; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; part iii; chapter seven; chapter eight; chapter nine; notes; bibliography; index
N2  - From an Existential Vacuum to a Tragic Optimism: The Search for Meaning and the Presence of God in Modern Literature employs a new theoretical approach to critical analysis: Victor Frankl's logotherapy (from the Greek ""logos"" for word or reason and often related to divine wisdom), a unique form of existentialism. On the basis of his observations of the power of human endurance and transcendence - the discovery of meaning even in the midst of harrowing circumstances - Frankl diagnoses the mala
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