Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility / edited by G. Ortiz, C. Joseph.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ortiz, Gaye Williams.

Joseph, Clara A. B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Christian Theology.

Literary Theory.

Local Subjects:

Christian Theology.

Literature.

Literary Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories.

Contents:

Cover

Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility

CONTENTS

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

THE EDITORS

On Reader Responsibility: An Introduction

Part I A Theory of Ethical Reading

1 Some Dilemmas of an Ethics of Literature

Part II Reading and the Biblical

2 Only Irresponsible People would go into the Desert for Forty Days: Jim Crace's Quarantine Or the Diary of another Madman

3 The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Rhetoricizing the Foundations

4 Samuel Beckett's Use of the Bible and the Responsibility of the Reader

5 On Trial: Mikhail Bakhtin and Abram Tertz's Address to "God"

6 Bible and Ethics: Moral Formation and Analogical Imagination

Part III Reading and the Literary

7 The Playwright, the Novelist, and the Comedian: A Case Study in Audience Responsibility

8 Dialogue in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule or the Reader as Truth-Seeker

9 Responsibly Performing Vulnerability: Salman Rushdie's Fury and Edgar Laurence Doctorow's City of God

10 The "Indian" Character of Modern Hindi Drama: Neo-Sanskritic, Pro-Western Naturalistic, or Nativistic Dramas?

11 Film and Apocryphal Imitation of the Feminine-Judith of Bethulia

12 Revolting Fantasies: Reviewing the Cinematic Image as Fruitful Ground for Creative, Theological Interpretations in the Company of Julia Kristeva

13 Literature as Resistance: Hannah Arendt on Storytelling

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611369620

9781281369628

1281369624

9781403982995

1403982996

OCLC:

567962627