Poetry and the religious imagination : the power of the word / edited by Francesca Bugliani Knox and David Lonsdale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bugliani Knox, Francesca, 1953- editor.

Lonsdale, David, 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Religious aspects.

Poetry.

Imagination--Religious aspects.

Imagination.

Religion in literature.

Spirituality in literature.

Experience (Religion) in literature.

Christianity and literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 268 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Power of the word

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2015]

Summary:

"What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Theology and literature in context. Theology and literature in the English-speaking world / Michael Kirwan; Why theologians are interested in literature: theological-literary hermeneutics in the works of Guardini, Von Balthasar, Tillich and Kuschel / Georg Langenhorst

The religious imagination: from Thomas Aquinas to Wallace Stevens. Identifying a religious imagination / Michael Paul Gallagher; Religious imagination and poetic audacity in Thomas Aquinas / Olivier-Thomas Venard; Dante and the indispensability of the image / John Took; Law and divine mercy in Shakespeare's religious imagination: Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice / Paul S. Fiddes; Wallace Stevens on God, imagination and reality /John McDade

Inspiration: poetry and poetry reading. Poetry as scripture, poetry as inspiration / Jay Parini

The poet as "worldmaker": T.S. Eliot and the religious imagination / Dominic Griffiths

Non tantum lecturi sed facturi: reading poetry as spiritual transformation / Antonio Dpadaro; Reading as active contemplation / Jennifer Reek

Poets and spiritual experience: mystical gestures. "There is a verge of the mind": imagination and mystical gesture in Rilke's later poems / Mark S. Burrows; "The pulse in the wound": embodiment and grace in Denise Levertov's religious poetry / Sarah Law

Poetry, religious imagination and religious belief. Images of the virgin in the late sixteenth century: the Catholic devotional poetry of Henry Constable / Lilla Grindlay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

147242624X

9781472426246

OCLC:

890107181

Publisher Number:

99962336050