Religion and Literature

Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)

The following is the final installment of a three-part series.  The first one can be found here, the second one here. As Julia Reinhard Lupton argues, Shakespeare’s Caliban complicates our sense of what it means to be a creature or creaturely. “The world of creatures,” Lupton posits,[1] constitutes an infinity rather than a totality, since it is […]

Religion and Literature

Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)

The following is the second installment of a three-part series.  The first one can be found here. Used by Auden in concert with “limitation” to qualify boundaries proper to secular aesthetics in modernity, the term “absurd” in its Kierkegaardian sense implies another precinct against which art and the artist will necessarily chafe in nonreligious domains […]