Religious Allusion in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
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- ISBN 9780786449392
- Weight: 295g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Aug 2012
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book examines how Gwendolyn Brooks, a self-proclaimed nonreligious person, advocates adherence to Christian ideals through religious allusions in her poetry. The discussion integrates Brooks' words, biographical data, commentary by other scholars, scriptural references, and doctrinal tenets. It identifies biblical figures and events and highlights Brooks' effective use of the sermon genre, and her express parallels between Christianity and Democracy. The work opens with a biographical chapter and Brooks' comments on religion, followed by analyses of her long poems, and more than thirty of her short ones. An illuminating interview with Nora Brooks Blakely about Brooks' religious background and philosophy is included.
Margot Harper Banks is a professor of English at Kean University, Union, New Jersey, former chair of its Writer’s Series, where she met Gwendolyn Brooks in 2000, and former coordinator of the freshman College Composition Program for 24 years.
