Seeing into the Life of Things : Essays on Religion and Literature / John L. Mahoney.
Mahoney, John L., author.; Anderson, John M., contributor.; Anglen, Kevin Van, contributor.; Appleyard, J. A., contributor.; Barth, J. Robert, contributor.; Boyd, John, contributor.; Fix, Stephen, contributor.; Gates, Henry Louis, contributor.; Hall, Dorothy Judd, contributor.; Kearney, Richard, contributor.; Kiely, Robert, contributor.; Leigh, David, contributor.; Mahoney, John L., contributor.; Ponder, Melinda, contributor.; Raiger, Michael, contributor.; Rule, Philip C., contributor.; Rzepka, Charles J., contributor.; Rzepka, Jane R., contributor.; Taylor, Dennis, contributor.; Wilt, Judith, contributor.
2021
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Title Seeing into the Life of Things : Essays on Religion and Literature / John L. Mahoney.
Author Mahoney, John L., author.
ISBN 9780823296606
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296606
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Copyright ©1997
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (353 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823296606 doi
Summary As the discourse of contemporary cultural studies brings questions of race, nationality, and gender to the center of critical attention nowadays, there is a strong sense that religious, or perhaps religious experience, should command the attention of the academic and wider reading community. Seeing into the Life of Things is a response to that need. By combining the theoretical and the practical, this book serves as both a pioneering scholarly contribution to a devleoping field and a valuable guide for those who read, reflect on, and discuss points of intersection of religion and literature. The contributors to this pioneering study represent a range of voices and viewpoints, some of them established leaders in their fields, others in the process of becoming new leaders. E. Dennis Taylor, Joseph Appleyard, Philip Rule, John Boyd, and Jane and Charles Rzepka work toward the development of a discourse that can take its place with discourses that have developed around a New Historicism and Feminism. Robert Kiely, Stephen Fix, Keven Van Anglen, J. Robert Barth, Richard Kearney, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Judith Wilt, John L. Mahoney, David Leigh, Melinda Ponder, John Anderson, and Michael Raiger offer more focused approaches to writers as varied as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Katherine Lee Bates, Flannery O'Connor, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Seamus Heaney and to special genres like spritual autobiography and film.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Added Author Anderson, John M., contributor.
Anglen, Kevin Van, contributor.
Appleyard, J. A., contributor.
Barth, J. Robert, contributor.
Boyd, John, contributor.
Fix, Stephen, contributor.
Gates, Henry Louis, contributor.
Hall, Dorothy Judd, contributor.
Kearney, Richard, contributor.
Kiely, Robert, contributor.
Leigh, David, contributor.
Mahoney, John L., contributor.
Ponder, Melinda, contributor.
Raiger, Michael, contributor.
Rule, Philip C., contributor.
Rzepka, Charles J., contributor.
Rzepka, Jane R., contributor.
Taylor, Dennis, contributor.
Wilt, Judith, contributor.
Series Studies in Religion and Literature
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000
Available in Other Form print 9780823217335
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
I Some Theoretical Perspectives
1 The Need for a Religious Literary Criticism
2 Imagination's Arc: The Spiritual Development of Readers
3 The Gendered Imagination in Religion and Literature
4 The Paschal Action and the Christian Imagination
5 Moral Cross-Dressing: Contemporary Trends in Liberal Preaching and Literary Criticism
II Some Practical Approaches
6 The Saint's Underwear: A Postmodern Reflection on The Rule and Life of St. Benedict with help from Gregory the Great and Hildegard of Bingen
7 Prayer, Poetry, and Paradise Lost: Samuel Johnson as Reader of Milton's Christian Epic
8 Reading Transcendentalist Texts Religiously: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Myth of Secularization
9 Gender and the Religious Vision: Katharine Lee Bates and Poetic Elegy
10 In the Churchyard, Outside the Church: Personal Mysticism and Ecclesiastical Politics in Two Poems by Charlotte Smith
11 The Sacramental Vision of Gerard Manley Hopkins
12 Reading Modem Religious Autobiographies: Multidimensional and Multicultural Approaches
13 "Large and Startling Figures": The Grotesque and the Sublime in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor
14 Sour Grapes: Ezekiel and the Literature of Social Justice
15 Wallace Stevens's Spiritual Voyage: A Buddhist-Christian Path to Conversion
16 Poetry, Language, and Identity: A Note on Seamus Heaney
17 Stevie Smith: Skepticism and the Poetry of Religious Experience
18 Acts of God: Film, Religion, and "FX"
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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