Seeing into the life of things : essays on literature and religious experience / edited with an introduction by John L. Mahoney. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahoney, John L.

Series:

Studies in religion and literature (Fordham University Press) ; no. 1.

Studies in religion and literature, 1096-6692 ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and literature.

Religion in literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 364 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 1998.

Contents:

Preface / John L. Mahoney

Pt. 1. Some theoretical perspecitves. 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 Rev. Jane R. Rzepka

Pt. 2. Some practical approaches. 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

(cont.) Reading modern religious autobiographies : multidimensional 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.

Notes:

Different subtitle on dust jacket cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-585-17125-4