Poetic Iconoclasm: Reflections on Patrick Downey’s Serious Comedy
Iconoclasm, the hatred and destruction of man-made images, is an old tendency in Abrahamic religions, emerging with violence in one century or another before submerging again. The first and most prominent outbreak of iconoclasm within Christianity arose in the Eastern Roman Empire in the 8th century, at a time when the Empire was being sorely …
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