Christianity and Literature articles from March 2004

Christianity and Literature archives from March 2004

Mark Twain's American Adam: humor as hope and apocalypse.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In the fall of 1879, Mark Twain enlisted many of the most prominent members of Elmira society into his rather preposterous scheme to erect a memorial to Adam as "the Father of the Human Race." A committee, called the "Adam Monument Association...

"Some--are like My Own--": Emily Dickinson's Christology of Embodiment.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is "acquainted with Grief," we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own. --Emily Dickinson, L932...

The stain on the mirror: Pauline reflections in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... [H]e saw Paul coming, a man small in size, bald-headed, bandy-legged, well-built, with eyebrows meeting, rather long-nosed, full of grace. For sometimes he looked like a man, and sometimes he had the countenance of an angel.--The Acts of Paul...

Joyce among the brothers.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Noting James Joyce's famous remark that "You allude to me as a Catholic; you ought to allude to me as a Jesuit" (2), Kevin Sullivan writes in Joyce Among the Jesuits that Joyce "received the whole of his formal education from the Jesuits. Only...

On the First Day.
March 22, 2004... On the First Day They put him in the ground as if hiding a great treasure. An ox-sized boulder marked the spot of it, and a crown of thistle. Women shined their faces with tears. Friday grew colder than ever it was...

Anglicanism and the poetry of John Betjeman.
March 22, 2004... The critical fate of John Betjeman is a sharply divided one. His work endures the dubious distinction of being enjoyed by millions of readers, many of whom would never read poetry. In spite of his popularity, which earned him the laureateship...

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Gerringong.
March 22, 2004... St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Gerringong it's star time of the year again, December breezes cooling the steep climb. our backs to the whitened church, there is only silence now and the distant sea. my gaze to the...

Redemption as language in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree.
March 22, 2004... While all of Cormac McCarthy's fiction is recondite, most of his characters are primitives who, in high contrast to their maker, have only a rudimentary facility with language. Their ponderous and slack attention, located somewhere between...

Auction.
March 22, 2004... The young man who sold his soul on e-bay must have been disappointed when the bidding was light even the most adventurous skeptics refrained just in case The orphaned soul was...

Towards a Christian Literary Theory.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Towards a Christian Literary Theory. By Luke Ferretter. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ISBN 0-333-96421-7. Pp. 221. $62.00. In this volume of Palgrave's Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture series, Luke Ferretter sets out to justify a...

Common Prayer: the Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By Ramie Targoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN 0-226-78968-3 (cloth), 0-226-78969-1 (paper). Pp. xii + 162. $40.00 (cloth), $17.00 (paper). Ramie...

Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England. Edited by Dennis Taylor and David N. Beauregard. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8232-2283-7 (cloth), 0-8232-2284-5 (paper). Pp. 451. $65.00 (cloth), $28.00...

The Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays. Edited by John W. Mahon and Ellen Macleod Mahon. New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-92999-7. Pp. xiv + 456. $95.00. This impressive volume, with eighteen new essays, could easily support a...

Puritanism and Its Discontents.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Puritanism and Its Discontents. Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. ISBN 0-87413-817-5. Pp. 264. $49.50. A fairly common problem with volumes that amount to the published proceedings of topical...

American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures. By Joanna Brooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-516078-9. Pp. vi + 255. $45.00. According to its author, American Lazarus:...

Mark Twain's Religion.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Mark Twain's Religion. By William E. Phipps. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 386. ISBN 0-86554-846-3 (cloth), 0-86554-897-8 (paper). $45.00 (cloth), $18.00 (paper). William E. Phipps begins his volume by listing a fairly...

Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred. By Alexander Irwin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8166-3902-7 (cloth), 0-8166-3903-5 (paper). Pp. xxviii + 258. $54.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper)....

The Myth of the American Superhero.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Myth of the American Superhero. By John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0-8028-4911-3. Pp. 416. $27.00. John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett write about our national...

At the Mercy Seat.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... At the Mercy Seat. By Susan McCaslin. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2003. ISBN 1-55380-003-6. Pp. 106. $9.95 (paper). For some, winter is the season of silence. Covered with snow masking leafless trees, the landscape is like the blank page...

Prepped for the Bypass.
March 22, 2004... Prepped for the Bypass Your thallium test complete, the cardiologist analyzes the film and points to a frame: "That black hole is your heart without oxygen. You're a prime candidate for a heart attack." He tells you...

Heart Talk.
March 22, 2004... Heart Talk For John and Mary Each day the cardiologists drop by my nephew's room to dissertate on pleural effusion and the Fontan Baffle, but it's the language of hands I follow: the nurses' touch around the hospital...

Seven-Year-Old Girl Escapes from Kidnappers.
March 22, 2004... Seven-Year-Old Girl Escapes from Kidnappers (Newspaper headline, 8/02) And we climb with her out of that abandoned basement through the now-broken window, her mouth and wrists a raw witness of what she clawed...