附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
The need for a religious literary criticism / Dennis Taylor -- Imagination's arc : the spiritual development of readers / J.A. Appleyard -- The gendered imagination in religion and literature / Philip C. Rule -- The paschal action and the Christian imagination / John Boyd -- Moral cross-dressing : contemporary trends in liberal preaching and literary criticism / Charles J. Rzepka and Jane R. Rzepka -- 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 / Robert Kiely -- Prayer, poetry, and Paradise Lost : Samuel Johnson as reader of Milton's Christian epic / Stephen Fix -- Reading transcendentalist texts religiously : Emerson, Thoreau, and the myth of secularization / Kevin Van Anglen -- Gender and the religious vision : Katherine Lee Bates and poetic elegy / Melinda Ponder -- In the churchyard, outside the church : personal mysticism and ecclesiastical politics in two poems by Charlotte Smith / John M. Anderson -- The sacramental vision of Gerard Manley Hopkins / J. Robert Barth -- Reading modern religious autobiographies : multi-dimensional and multicultural approaches / David Leigh -- "Large and startling figures" : the grotesque and the sublime in the short stories of Flannery O'Connor / Michael Raiger -- Sour grapes : Ezekiel and the literature of social justice / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Wallace Steven's spiritual voyage : a Christian path to conversion / Dorothy Judd Hall -- Poetry, language, and identity : a note on Seamus Heaney / Richard Kearney -- Stevie Smith : skepticism and the poetry of religious experience / John L. Mahoney -- Acts of God : film, religion, and "FX" / Judith Wilt.
摘要:As the discourse of contemporary cultural studies brings questions of race, nationality, and gender to the center of critical attention, there is a strong sense that religion, and 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 developing field and a guide for those who read, reflect on, and discuss points of intersection of religion and literature.
