Prophetic witness and the reimagining of the world : poetry, theology and philosophy in dialogue : power of the word V / edited by Mark S. Burrows, Hilary Davies and Josephine von Zitzewitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burrows, Mark S., 1955- editor.

Davies, Hilary, 1954- editor.

von Zitzewitz, Josephine, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prophecy in literature.

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Religion and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

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Biography/History:

Mark S. Burrows is Professor of Religion and Literature at the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany, as well as a poet and translator of German literature. His academic work explores the horizon of Christian spirituality, with a research focus on the intersection of mysticism and poetics. His new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Hours, Part I, appeared in 2016 (Prayers of a Young Poet), and in 2014 he published a collection by the Iranian-German poet SAID (99 psalms). The Chance of Home, a collection of his poems, appeared in 2018, and together with Jon M. Sweeney he has published two recent volumes of poems inspired by Meister Eckhart: Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart (2017) and Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets (2019). He co-edited, with Jean Ward and Małgorzata Grzegorzewska, the third volume in "The Power of the Word" series, Poetic Revelations. Word Made Flesh Made Word; Routledge, 2017. Hilary Davies has published four collections of poetry from Enitharmon: the latest, Exile and the Kingdom, was published in November 2016. She is also a translator, essayist and critic. Hilary has won an Eric Gregory award, been a Hawthornden Fellow, has served as Chairman of the Poetry Society of Great Britain and is a Fellow of the English Association. From 2012 to 2016 she was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King's College, London and in 2018 - 9 at the British Library . Josephine von Zitzewitz is Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in Russian Literature at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway in Tromso, having previously held research and teaching appointments at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol. A specialist in 20th century poetry, she is the author of Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar 1976-1980: Music for a Deaf Age (Legenda/MHRA and Routledge, 2016) and numerous articles on underground literature in the late Soviet Union. Her new book, The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury (2020).

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Approaching the prophetic: orientations, ancient and modern

1 At the creative source of the arts: poetry as prophecy in a negative theological key

2 Isaiah: reading writing, re-voicing silent Israel

3 'Diversely and in many ways God spoke by the prophets': New Testament perspectives and the texts and images of William Blake on the 'prophetic word'

4 Poetry, prophecy and the angelic voice: reflections on the divine word

5 Prophecy and the poetic word

Part II Prophecy in the critical lens of philosophy

6 Explanation, silence, and then poetry: Wittgenstein's poetic philosophy as a prophetic vision of life

7 The philosopher Empedocles as prophet and his reception by Freud

8 Prophecy and presence: reading the signs of the times with Jacques Ellul

9 Beyond the 'immanent frame': Charles Taylor as a reader of poetry

Part III The prophetic in the witness of literature

10 John Clare's Romantic 'I': a prophetic poetics of testimony

11 Fearful Symmetry, seventy years on: Northrop Frye on William Blake

12 Czesław Miłosz and R. S. Thomas as prophetic voices of our time

13 When does a pilgrim become a prophet?: R. S. Thomas, 'This to do,' and the shaping of a prophet

14 T. S. Eliot and Tadeusz Różewicz: the prophetic strain

15 The forerunners: St. John the Baptist and Lazarus in the poetry of T. S. Eliot

Part IV Looking forward: framing the question of the prophetic in late modernity

16 The power of spiritual poetry in a secular world

17 "Nature is never spent"? The prophetic voice in contemporary Canadian ecological poetry

18 Prophecy as hope: interpreting the silence of Holy Saturday

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781000194654

1000194655

9780367344092

0367344092

9781000194661

1000194663

9781000194678

1000194671

Publisher Number:

99986121614

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