Christianity and Literature articles from June 2002

Christianity and Literature archives from June 2002

Faulting and Thrusting.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Faulting and Thrusting Some early mornings, pacing with my maker, his earth drops down, his sun lasers across the parquet floor. Granule and grit grow into glacial boulders marring the pale plain, ...

Gawain and the godgames.
June 22, 2002... Gaines and play abound in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and by such amusements the Gawain-poet investigates the ways they reveal the knight's understanding of his individual identity as a Christian. Through the intersecting dynamics of...

St. George.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... St. George From Cappadocia he rode, a Roman captain, But not really, from some lower colonial caste, Unsophisticated, probably unaware That this dragon would unfortunately be the last On Earth, that there would...

"In whom love wrought new Alchimie": The Inversion of Christian Spiritual Resurrection in John Donne's "A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day".
June 22, 2002... When thou thinkest thy selfe swallowed, and buried in affliction[...,] Christ Jesus shall remove thy grave stone, and give thee a resurrection; but if thou thinke to remove it by thine own wit, thine owne power[...,] Digitus Dei non est hic,...

St. Lucy of the Eyes and Candles.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... St. Lucy of the Eyes and Candles Even before her eyes were plucked out Lucy Looked on a separate, purer Syracuse, A Sicily unseen by the balding suitor Whose noble looks and name she would refuse. Her prayers,...

Paradise reframed: Lewis, Bergson, and changing times on Perelandra.
June 22, 2002... Ever since its publication, C. S. Lewis's Perelandra (1943) has been read primarily in terms of a sharply defined struggle between religious and naturalistic points of view. As in the other parts of his Space Trilogy, Lewis seems to present an...

Veiled truth: reading Assia Djebar from the outside.
June 22, 2002... In a recent review of Edward Said's Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, philosopher and development ethicist Martha Nussbaum paraphrased his definition of the role of the university as "basically Socratic: to unsettle and oppose, to test all...

"Where is that voice coming from?": Walker Percy and the Demonic. (Special Feature).(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Anyone familiar with the history and practice of literary criticism over the past several decades knows that the study of narrative voice, or what is called narratology, is a major interest of scholars of the novel. Once the belief in a...

Un entretien avec Paul Ricoeur. (Special Feature).(Interview)
June 22, 2002... Translated by Ellyn Lockerbie Grosh (This interview was conducted at Paul Ricoeur's residence in a suburb of Paris on 20 October 2001.--Ed.) ADS: Je voudrais commencer avec la raison pour ma venue ici et pour cette interview: c'est...

A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love.
June 22, 2002... By Alan Jacobs. Boulder: Westview Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8133-6577-5 (cloth), 0-8133-6566-X (paper). Pp. ix + 186. $65.00 (cloth), $18.00 (paper). Alan Jacobs has written a fine, thoughtful, and inspiring book. It is part theology, part...

A History of the English Bible as Literature.
June 22, 2002... By David Norton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-77140-4 (cloth), 0-521-77807-7 (paper). Pp. xii + 455. $85.00 (doth), $35.00 (paper). David Norton's A History of the English Bible as Literature is a revised and...

Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
June 22, 2002... By Brenda Deen Schildgen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. ISBN 0-8130-21073. Pp. 183. $59.95. No group of people could be more English than the company Geoffrey Chaucer reports he joined one April day at the Tabard Inn in...

The Key in the Window: Marginal Notes in Bunyan's Narratives.
June 22, 2002... By Maxine Hancock. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-57383-115-8. Pp. 190. $34.95. Do the marginal notations of John Bunyan's allegories deserve, or even provide adequate subject material for, a book-length scholarly...

The Lure of Babylon: Seven Protestant Novelists and Britain's Roman Catholic Revival.
June 22, 2002... By Michael E. Schiefelbein. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-86554-720-3. Pp. 202. $39.95. It is hot a secret that fear and loathing of the Roman Catholic Church ("the whore of Babylon") was an integral part of the cultural...

Hunting captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival.
June 22, 2002... By Clare L. Spark. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-87338-674-4. Pp. x + 730. $55.00. More is at stake than just another analysis of Herman Melville in this hefty, detailed, and wide-ranging study by Clare L. Spark. In fact,...

Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: the Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists.
June 22, 2002... By Richard J. Douglass-Chin. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1311-1. Pp. ix + 228. $34.95. Richard J. Douglass-Chin has written an important, albeit uneven, book on the origins of African American women's spiritual...

C. S. Lewis Then and Now.
June 22, 2002... By Wesley A. Kort. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-514342-6. Pp. 194. $25.00. If Doris T. Myers' fine book C. S. Lewis in Context (1994) offers readers an understanding of the public context of language when Lewis wrote...

Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett.
June 22, 2002... By Jonathan Boulter. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. ISBN 0-8130-2106-5. Pp. 158. $55.00. To justify the offering of his book, Jonathan Boulter describes the Beckett academic community as "caught between two extremes of...

Nourishing Faith through Fiction: Reflections of the Apostles' Creed in Literature and Film.
June 22, 2002... By John R. May. Franklin (WI): Sheed & Ward, 2001. ISBN 1-58051106-6 (paper). Pp. x + 138. $18.95. This small volume reflects a lifetime of reading and viewing by a man of both faith and letters. John R. May is one of the "deans" of the...

2002 CCL Student Writing Contest. (News And Announcements).(winners announced)
June 22, 2002... The Conference on Christianity and Literature is pleased to recognize winners of the annual Student Writing Contest. Martha Greene Eads (Valparaiso University), who organized this year's competition, reports that 105 poems, 38 short stories,...

CCL Regional Meetings and Calls for Papers. (News And Announcements).
June 22, 2002... On 3-5 October 2002 the CCL Southwest Regional Meeting will convene at Oral Roberts University to address the topic "Literature, Contemporary Scholarship, and the Christian Tradition." Details regarding speakers, registration, and other...

Submissions for Book. (News And Announcements).
June 22, 2002... Contributions are invited for a book tentatively titled The Girl of Story: Narrating Hope in Film and Literature. In The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (1999), Andrew Delbanco writes that "human beings need to organize the inchoate...

Conference on Christianity and Culture. (News And Announcements).
June 22, 2002... On 27-28 September 2002 the third annual Conference on Christianity and Culture will be held at Michigan State University's Kellogg Center. Mark Noll (Wheaton College), joined by faculty from Calvin College, Central Michigan University,...

Pepperdine University Conference on Vocation. (News And Announcements).
June 22, 2002... Pepperdine University's Center for Faith and Learning has organized a national symposium on "Sharing Stories of Vocation: How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind, Enhance Our Scholarship, and Invigorate Our Classroom Teaching." The...

Baylor University's Art and Soul Festival. (News And Announcements).
June 22, 2002... On 20-23 March 2003 the Institute for Faith and Learning at Baylor University will host a conference on "Mystery and Meaning in the Arts." The organizers welcome proposals for individual or panel presentations related to this theme, discussions...

Juney Burridge.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Juney Burridge Matthew 25:40 From the back steps of the library I see her, her humped shoulder, little pot belly, her lifting of feet as if the earth were egg shell or ice. She is our collector of dandelion and...