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From: Wayne Daniels <wdaniels@tpl.toronto.on.ca>
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From reviewer Leona Toker's comments on a newish book, _By Authors
Possessed: The Demonic Novel in Russia_ by Adam Weiner.
>>The other view, bound up with orthodox religious suspicions of imaginative
>literature in general, regards unruly creation as a competing alternative
>to God's work and therefore as, possibly, demonic.
Commetns by Wayne Daniels:
>A related case is made by orthodox Catholics against those humanist
assumptions that inform liberalism in poilitics. It is a grave sin to talk
of happiness or of any form of human fulfillment (including that accruing
either to art or as a result of measures promoting social justice) that is
presented as being distinct from God's will. Given N.'s political heritage,
and despite his often repeated rejection of a political (or any didactic)
component to his art, perhaps one may argue a link between what the two
stand for -- at least in the eyes of some.
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>Wayne Daniels
>Science Net Project Coordinator
>Virtual Reference Library Project -- 3rd Floor
>North York Central Library
>5120 Yonge Street
>Toronto, ON
>Canada M2N 5N9
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>tel.: (416) 395-5659
>fax: (416) 395-5429
>e-mail: wdaniels@tpl.toronto.on.ca
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From: Wayne Daniels <wdaniels@tpl.toronto.on.ca>
>----------------- Message requiring your approval (22
lines) ------------------
From reviewer Leona Toker's comments on a newish book, _By Authors
Possessed: The Demonic Novel in Russia_ by Adam Weiner.
>>The other view, bound up with orthodox religious suspicions of imaginative
>literature in general, regards unruly creation as a competing alternative
>to God's work and therefore as, possibly, demonic.
Commetns by Wayne Daniels:
>A related case is made by orthodox Catholics against those humanist
assumptions that inform liberalism in poilitics. It is a grave sin to talk
of happiness or of any form of human fulfillment (including that accruing
either to art or as a result of measures promoting social justice) that is
presented as being distinct from God's will. Given N.'s political heritage,
and despite his often repeated rejection of a political (or any didactic)
component to his art, perhaps one may argue a link between what the two
stand for -- at least in the eyes of some.
>
>
>
>
>Wayne Daniels
>Science Net Project Coordinator
>Virtual Reference Library Project -- 3rd Floor
>North York Central Library
>5120 Yonge Street
>Toronto, ON
>Canada M2N 5N9
>
>tel.: (416) 395-5659
>fax: (416) 395-5429
>e-mail: wdaniels@tpl.toronto.on.ca
>
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