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  • PANDEMICS AND APOCALYPSE IN WORLD LITERATURE
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    PANDEMICS AND APOCALYPSE IN WORLD LITERATURE
    WILLIAM FRANKE
    Pandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we a...

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  • DON QUIXOTE’S IMPOSSIBLE QUEST FOR THE ABSOLUTE IN LITERATURE
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    DON QUIXOTE’S IMPOSSIBLE QUEST FOR THE ABSOLUTE IN LITERATURE
    WILLIAM FRANKE
    This book offers a reading particularly of Part II of Don Quixote, a reading that is embedded in a philosophical reflection on the revelation of religious truth in and through literature. Part II of Don Quixote is the far richer part for its meta-literary reflection on the novel itself as a genre and on life as such seen through the lens of self-reflection. The author has treat...

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  • DANTOLOGIES
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    DANTOLOGIES
    WILLIAM FRANKE
    This book comprises a searching philosophical meditation on the evolution of the humanities in recent decades, taking Dante studies as an exemplary specimen. The contemporary currents of theory have decisively impacted this field, but Dante also has a strong relationship with theology. The idea that theology, teleology, and logocentric rationalities are simply overcome and swep...

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  • DANTE’S PARADISO AND THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF MODERN THOUGHT
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    DANTE’S PARADISO AND THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF MODERN THOUGHT
    WILLIAM FRANKE
    Self-reflection, as the hallmark of the modern age, originates more profoundly with Dante than with Descartes. This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian self-reflexivity that gives a theological spin to the birth of the modern subject already with the Troubadours. The ever more intense self-reflexivity ...

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  • A THEOLOGY OF LITERATURE
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    A THEOLOGY OF LITERATURE
    WILLIAM FRANKE
    With the tools of far-reaching revolutions in literary theory and informed by the poetic sense of truth, William Franke offers a critical appreciation and philosophical reflection on a way of reading the Bible as theological revelation. Franke explores some of the principal literary genres of the Bible—Myth, Epic History, Prophecy, Apocalyptic, Writings, and Gospel—as building ...

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  • THE THOUGHTFUL MUSE
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    THE THOUGHTFUL MUSE
    WILLIAM FRANKE
    The verses in this book were written in re-creational moments of reflection, whether on specific incidents or on constants of existence perceived in particular places under unique circumstances. They aim to preserve and convey some vestige of these revelatory experiences. They strive to raise the attendant illuminations into a heightened consciousness that opens upon the univer...

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  • THE VAGABOND SCHOLAR
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    THE VAGABOND SCHOLAR
    WILLIAM FRANKE
    William Franke wrote these poems full of youthful inspirations in lyrical verse in the 1980s after completing an MA degree in philosophy and theology at Oxford University. Leaving Oxford, he embarked in the summer of 1980 on the “grand tour” of Europe in the tradition of British aristocrats from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. He followed the footsteps of the archety...

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