David Jones, Action, Anamnesis, and the Roman Catholic Mass
Throughout his work, David Jones claims that creative making, whether a sacrament or a painting or a poem, always involves action-sign-making or poiesis-and re-membering, or anamnesis, as a particular form of historical recall. This essay offers a focused analysis of the particular qualities of acti...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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2017
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Religion & literature
Année: 2017, Volume: 49, Numéro: 1, Pages: 81-90 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianisme et culture KAJ Époque contemporaine KDB Église catholique romaine RC Liturgie |
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Theology
B POETRY (Literary form) B Lord's Supper B Literary style B JONES, David, 1895-1974 |
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| Résumé: | Throughout his work, David Jones claims that creative making, whether a sacrament or a painting or a poem, always involves action-sign-making or poiesis-and re-membering, or anamnesis, as a particular form of historical recall. This essay offers a focused analysis of the particular qualities of action and anamnesis as found in the traditional form of the Roman Catholic Mass, which fundamentally shaped Jones's view of the sacramental nature of art as anamnetic making. The essay first examines the key elements of action and anamnesis within the Mass. It then turns to Jones's grasp of those elements as expressed in Gregory Dix's The Shape of the Liturgy, which Jones found particularly sympathetic to his own view. A brief account of his experience of the Mass in the Ditchling community reveals the practical, experiential genesis of these same ideas as they relate to the making of art. The essay concludes with comments on three works of art by Jones-the painting "A Latere Dextro," the inscription "Pwy Yw R Gwr," and the poem The Anathemata-which take the Mass as their subject and illuminate Jones's sense of the relationship between the anamnetic action of the Mass and the historical recall intrinsic to artistic making. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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