Why the fuss over Brown’s The Da Vinci code? The dynamism of 'icons' and the in/stability of meaning
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship
Field | Value | |
Title | Why the fuss over Brown’s The Da Vinci code? The dynamism of 'icons' and the in/stability of meaning | |
Creator | Lombaard, C. | |
Description | Dan Brown’s book, “The Da Vinci code” (2003) and the sub-sequent motion picture by the same title (2006), have created a considerable stir within, but not limited to, Christian circles. The cause of the controversy is that, despite Brown’s overt pre-sentation of this work as fiction, it draws on figures, events and themes regarded in religious circles as sacred – most par-ticularly in Christian circles. Holy figures, events and themes are sensitive matters to believers: the meanings attached to them are regarded as essentially fixed, with connotations of perma-nence and eternity. Literature of many kinds, however, reinter-pret set meanings, loosening their perceived inflexibility, thus opening up a dynamism quite foreign to popular notions of definite meaning. | |
Publisher | AOSIS | |
Date | 2009-07-26 | |
Identifier | 10.4102/koers.v74i1/2.127 | |
Source | Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap; Vol 74, No 1-2 (2009); 285-298 2304-8557 0023-270X | |
Language | eng | |
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