Christianity and Literature articles from March 2002

Christianity and Literature archives from March 2002

Putting off the Old Man and putting on the New: Ephesians 4:22-24 in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift, and Dostoevsky.
March 22, 2002... I I take as my prolegomenon Robert Frost's dictum that "poetry is what gets lost in translation." If we extend that paradox to the Bible, it may be said that even more perilous to the poetry of Scripture is what is lost when translation is...

Laurence Sterne and the ethics of sexual difference: chiasmic narration and double desire.
March 22, 2002... "Ethics has gained new resonance in literary studies during the past dozen years," announces Laurence Buell in his introductory essay to the January 1999 special issue of PMLA on "Ethics and Literary Study." As he goes on in the following pages...

Humanities.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... humanities the arc of the janitor's kindness glistens, as beads of watery stars slip from the fruit's green heaven of skin. his hands hold up the pear, offer it up with compassion. i understand his seed-dark eyes...

The catnip and the amaranth: Melville's struggle with the "ever-encroaching appetite for God".
March 22, 2002... The rose leaves, see, disbanded be-- Blowing, about me blowing, But on the deathbed of the rose My amaranths are growing. --Herman Melville, Clarel In Pierre, Herman Melville describes a vision that comes to his...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Christian feminism in The Minister's Wooing: a precedent for Emily Dickinson.
March 22, 2002... Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. --Luke 12:32 God will not let us have heaven here below, but only such glimpses and faint showings as parents sometimes give to children, when they...

The "otherness" within "ownness": reading T. S. Eliot's "Ash-Wednesday".
March 22, 2002... Although he was often criticized for the near papal authority with which he made his critical pronouncements, T. S. Eliot claimed in "Poetry and Propaganda" (1930) that "our literary judgment is always fallible" According to Eliot, the...

The second coming.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... come to me, my opic; do not be vexed by the buzz and whir of garden tools for I am within the din very near, in the soundtrack of your sleep and the geography of breath. while hands and spires point upward ...

Harry Potter and the "deeper magic": narrating hope in children's literature.
March 22, 2002... With the remarkable 3.5 million first printing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth volume in the series, thirty-seven-year-old Joanna Kathleen Rowling has achieved the dream of every adult or children's author: people everywhere...

Divine Dialectic: Dante's Incarnational Poetry.
March 22, 2002... By Guy P. Raffa. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8020-4856-0. Pp. xii + 254. $55.00. Guy P. Raffa's book, as the title reveals, links Christian incarnational theology to dialectical thinking to reinterpret Dante's Divine...

Conversing with God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings.
March 22, 2002... By Hilmar W. Pabel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8020-4101-9. Pp. x + 264. $60.00. Hilmar W. Pabel's detailed study of Erasmus' writings on prayer is significant both for the topic itself, which has been generally...

Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan.
March 22, 2002... By R. V. Young. Studies in Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000. ISBN 0-85991-569-7. Pp. x + 241. $75.00. This volume, the second in a new series edited by John T. Shawcross and Graham Parry and devoted to early-modern...

The Life of John Milton: a Critical Biography.
March 22, 2002... By Barbara K. Lewalski. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0-631-17665-9. Pp. xvii + 777. $39.95. In this balanced and incisive biography, Barbara K. Lewalski displays the cumulative work of a scholar who has been producing acclaimed...

Useful Knowledge: the Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect.
March 22, 2002... By Alan Rauch. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8223-2663-9 (cloth), 0-8223-2668-X (paper). Pp. x + 292. $59.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Alan Ranch's title concisely captures the tension between intellect and morality that...

American Short Stories since 1945.
March 22, 2002... Edited by John G. Parks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-513132-0. Pp. x + 886. $40.00 (paper). In a poem titled "Ceremony," novelist Leslie Marmon Silko writes: I will tell you something about stories, [he...

The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine.
March 22, 2002... Edited by Carl Elliott and John D. Lantos. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8223-2369-9 (paper). Pp. ix + 167. $16.95. Each of the essays collected in The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine takes up some...

Prophets Without Vision: Subjectivity and the Sacred in Contemporary American Writing.
March 22, 2002... By Hedda Ben-Bassat. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8387-5433-3. Pp. 216. Price not available. The last twenty years or so have seen the ascendancy of the New Pragmatism and the New Historicism in literary and cultural...

Recalling Religions: Resistance, Memory, and Cultural Revision in Ethnic Women's Literature.
March 22, 2002... By Peter Kerry Powers. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. ISBN 1-57233-127-5. Pp. xvii+ 139. $27.00. In his semi-autobiographical introduction to Recalling Religions: Resistance, Memory, and Cultural Revision in Ethnic Women's...

Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures.
March 22, 2002... Edited by Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001. ISBN 90-420-1554-3 (cloth), 90-420-1544-6 (paper). Pp. xxxiii + 486. $110.00 (cloth), $34.00 (paper). The promise and shortcomings of postcolonial studies,...

Hiding Amy.
March 22, 2002... By William R. Mitchell. Edmond (OK): Greystone Press, 2001. ISBN 0-9669682-1-2. Pp. 218. $14.00 (paper). In William R. Mitchell's second novel, Hiding Amy, rural Oklahoma around 1955 produces Clem Anthony, a bright young man who is reading...

The Altering Eye.
March 22, 2002... The Altering Eye. By Susan McCaslin. Ottaway: Borealis Press, 2000. ISBN 0-88887-232-1 (paper). Pp 64. $14.95. Common Longing: The Teresa Poems and A Canticle for Mary and Martha. By Susan McCaslin. Lewiston: Mellen Poetry Press, 2001. ISBN...

Instructions for Walking on Water.
March 22, 2002... By Jan Lee Ande. Ashland (OH): Ashland Poetry Press, 2001. ISBN 0-912592-46-X. Pp. 85. $10.00. Jan Lee Ande's collection, winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize, is enlightened and enlightening Zen Christian poetry that...

CCL Regional Meetings. (News And Announcements).
March 22, 2002... Papers and proposals are invited for the CCL Mideast Regional Meeting on 18-19 October 2002 at the University of Dayton. Denis Donoghue (New York University) will be the conference's keynote speaker. Submissions may address any aspect of...

Baylor University's Art and Soul Festival. (News And Announcements).
March 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...

C.S. Lewis Summer Institute. (News And Announcements).
March 22, 2002... The C. S. Lewis Summer Institute, an interdisciplinary conference that serves as a focal point of the C. S. Lewis Foundation's efforts to encourage a renaissance of Christian scholarship, will be held at Oxford University on 14-20 July and at...