The sacred desert :religion, literature, art, and culture
Malden, MA
Blackwell
Includes bibliographical references )p. 189-199( and index
David Jasper
Introduction: meeting points -- The Bible, Schoenberg and Heidegger -- The desert fathers: wanderings and miracles -- Time and memory: wind and space, the desert and mysticism -- Mysticism and modernity: Thomas Merton meets Don Cupitt -- The literature of the desert: travellers and poets -- The literature of the desert: novelists -- Artists: Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Viola and American abstract expressionism -- Films of the desert: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders and Claire Denis -- Desert theology and total presence: the poets William Blake and Yves Bonnefoy meet Hegel and Tom Altizer -- Conclusion: meeting point