This study analyses the work of Nick Cave, a singular, idiosyncratic and brilliant musician, specifically through his engagements with theology and the Bible. It does so not merely in terms of his written work - the novels and plays and poetry and lyrics that he continues to produce - but also the music itself. Covering more than three decades of extraordinarily diverse creativity, this book explores such themes as the depravity of the worlds invoked in Cave's novels and other written work, the consistent invocation of apocalyptic, his restoration of death as a valid dimension of life, the twists of the love song, and the role of a sensual and heretical Christ. This book draws upon a select number of theorists who provide the methodological possibilities of digging deep into the theological nature of Cave's work, namely Ernst Bloch, the methodological foundation stone, as well as Theodor Adorno, Theodore Gracyk and Jacques Attali.
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This study analyses the work of Nick Cave, a singular, idiosyncratic and brilliant musician, specifically through his engagements with theology and the Bible. It does so not merely in terms of his written work - the novels and plays and poetry and lyrics that he continues to produce - but also the music itself.
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Introduction 1. Searching the Holy Books 2. The Total Depravity of Cave's Literary World 3. Some Routine Atrocity, or Apocalyptic 4. Death 5. God, Pain and the Love Song 6. Jesus of the Mon, or Christology 7. Hearing Round Corners: Nick Cave Meets Ernst Bloch Conclusion: Gates to the Garden - The Search for Redemption
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'Boer tackles Nick Cave's work with a discipline and love that I, as a fan of both men, am grateful for.' Barry Taylor, Fuller Theological Seminary, Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2012 'The book will continue to inspire both scholarship about Cave and about the place of the obviously religious in the performances of popular culture.' Literature and Aesthetics, 2013
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781781790342
Publisert
2013-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Vekt
249 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter

Biographical note

Roland Boer is Research Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His most recent book is Marxist Criticism of the Bible (2003), and his research is mostly focused on the intersections between biblical studies and critical theory.