Christianity and Literature articles from January 2005

Christianity and Literature archives from January 2005

From the editors.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... For the fifteen years that Robert Snyder tirelessly edited this journal, he included a synopsis of his annual report to the Conference on Christianity and Literature's Board of Directors in the Winter issue. With his kind permission, we include...

Don Quixote till kingdom come: the (un)realized eschatology of Miguel de Unamuno.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... "et ctuia existimarent quod confestim regnum Dei manifestaretur [...] et ait ad illos negotiamini dum venio" (Lk. 19.11b, 13b). ("and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. [...] he [...] said unto them,...

Felling the Pear Tree.(Poem)
January 1, 2005... Felling the Pear Tree No chartreuse will grace this Easter's rising. Termites shredded the moist heart. Now sheared, the branches once bore such fruit we thought it prodigal. Time spins such mists, the eternal...

The Mystery of Absence.(Poem)
January 1, 2005... The Mystery of Absence "Why search among the dead for who lives?" --Luke 24.4 A black hole full of gases, matter so dense it sucks in stars, remaining transparent except for the first implosion, the longing after...

Conjuring hope in a body: Lucille Clifton's eschatology.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... the world is turning in the body of Jesus and the future is possible --"spring song" by Lucille Clifton, from Good News About the Earth In a 2000 interview with Michael Glaser, African-American poet and memoirist Lucille Clifton...

Mary and modesty.
January 1, 2005... "... one must travel the road of metaphor, of icon, to come back to that figure who, throughout a corrupt history, has moved the hearts of men and women, has triumphed over the hatred of women and the fear of her, and abides shining, worthy of...

My Retinue.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... My Retinue Raise up the story of your grave past from beneath the stone foundation of your first house where blocked in living cement you lived like an anchoress attached to a church closed in and fed...

Enthusiastic poetry and rationalized Christianity: the poetic theory of John Dennis.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... The critical writing of John Dennis (1657-1734) participates in the long-standing attempt to appropriate classical aesthetic and philosophical categories in an explicitly Christian framework. His critical project also aims, however, to unite...

Recent work in Romanticism and religion: from witness to critique.(The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy)(Romanticism and Transcendence: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Religious Imagination)(The Fountain Light: Studies in Romanticism and Religion, Essays in Honor of John L. Mahoney)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8047-4231-6 (hardcover); 0-8047-4506-4 (paper). PP. x + 346. $65.00 (hardcover); $27.95 (paper). Romanticism and Transcendence: Wordsworth,...

The Magdalen's Song.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... The Magdalen's Song What eye is left is going, the hair, the voice long gone. For years the knees have been water, water and stone, rusting hinges levers and keys pinned metal to bone. Each...

Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT IMITATE HOMER? FOUR CASES FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. BY DENNIS R. MACDONALD. NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09770-0. PP. x + 227. $38.00. The title poses the question that the book seeks to...

The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress. By Isabel Hofmeyr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-691-11655-5 (cloth); ISBN 0-691-11656-3 (paper). Pp. xvi + 318. $65.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). ...

Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way. Edited by Daniel W. Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. ISBN 0 87413-843-4. Pp. 367. $62.50. If you don't like...

Milton Studies, Volume 41.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Milton Studies, Volume 41. Edited by Albert C. Labriola. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8229-4189-9. Pp. 230. $50.00. Begun in 1969, Milton Studies has acquired a reputation for publishing some of the best...

Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England. By Michael Giffin. NY: Palgrave, 2002. ISBN 0-333-94808-4. Pp. 222. Participating in the continuing critical debate about how best to identify Jane Austen's cultural...

Through the Past Darkly: History and Memory in Francois Mauriac's Bloc-notes.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Through the Past Darkly: History and Memory in Francois Mauriac's Bloc-notes. By Nathan Bracher. Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8132-1380-0. Pp. ix + 240. $65.95. After World War II, under the hubristic...

Uncommon Readers: Denis Donoghue, Frank Kermode, George Steiner, and the Tradition of the Common Reader.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Uncommon Readers: Denis Donoghue, Frank Kermode, George Steiner, and the Tradition of the Common Reader. By Christopher J. Knight. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8020-8798-1. Pp. 506. $50.00. The title of Knight's book...

Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida.(The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida. By John Schad. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. ISBN 1845190203. Pp. viii + 177. $25.00. The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. By Slavoj Zizek. Cambridge,...

A Deed to the Light.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... A Deed to the Light. By Jeanne Murray Walker. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ISBN 0-252-07177-8 Pp. 72. $14.95. Readers already familiar with Jeanne Murray Walker's poetry will be glad to hear that her newest...

News and announcements.
January 1, 2005... Oxbridge 2005 Academic Conference Through its Faculty Forums (2001, 2002, 2003) and Summer Institute, Oxbridge 2002, the C. S. Lewis Foundation has been pleased to host an international Academic Conference of increasing stature. Oxbridge...

February.(Poem)
January 1, 2005... February Winter. Dark dead days. Anger sparks out greedily among us. Each word holds danger of attack. A man on the bus snaps at the driver, who flings back a sharp answer. In the office we crouch like...