Christianity and Literature articles from March 2007

Christianity and Literature archives from March 2007

From the editors.(statistical data on periodical subscriptions and submissions)
March 22, 2007... At the end of each year, we prepare a report for the board of the Conference on Christianity and Literature providing details about subscriptions and submissions to Christianity and Literature during the previous twelve months. We would also...

Representing the limits of judgment: Yvor Winters, Emily Dickinson, and religious experience.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... I During the past dozen years, the central event in the history of American literary criticism--the institutionalization of literature brought about in part by the so-called New Critics--has come under new scrutiny. The reef of decades...

Spirit and flesh in twentieth-century Welsh poetry: a comparison of the work of D. Gwenallt Jones and Pennar Davies.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... In "Welsh Poetry Since 1945," a masterly assessment of Welsh poetry between 1945 and 1970 published more than thirty years ago, the then-young literary critic Dafydd Glyn Jones described the impact the Penyberth incident--the "Burning of the...

Suicide in the fiction of Georges Bernanos and Stefan Zweig: the death of two female adolescents.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... The Encounter of Georges Bernanos and Stefan Zweig The most voluntary death is the finest. Life depends upon the pleasure of others; death upon our own.--Montaigne 167 Countless superlatives have been used to describe the literary...

Catacomb.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Catacomb Ozra Momenadi, 80, was pulled out of the rubble Wednesday afternoon, almost a week after the earthquake hit the region. How she rose--as a violet from Eden, from a world in love with petals, limp...

A tribute to Nathan A. Scott, Jr.(Obituary)
March 22, 2007... April 24, 1925-December 20, 2006 In each academic discipline, there is always a small nucleus of one or two seminal figures upon whom the discipline bases its raison detre, and in the field of religion and literature this indispensable...

Christianity, literature, and cultural conflict in America.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2007... The purpose of my paper is to raise and to address this question: What can Americans learn from Christianity and literature about encountering differing cultures and, if something can be learned, how seriously should it be taken? I shall begin...

Stilled.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Stilled I must learn the calligraphy of egret stance, poised on a word that lies beneath the weaving current, steady, still.

Presentation of CCL lifetime achievement award to John Updike.(Conference on Christianity and Literature)(Speech)
March 22, 2007... Commending the work of John Updike is a bit like praising democracy or defending the value of freedom. You don't know where to start, and you feel embarrassed to be stating the obvious. Yet it is always right and proper to celebrate the highest...

Response.(Conference on Christianity and Literature lifetime achievement award to author John Updike)(Speech)
March 22, 2007... Let me extend my thanks to you, Professor Webb, for your most generous words, and to all of you of the Conference instrumental for giving me this award. Any literary award prompts some guilt in me, since to have lived since the age of...

On a Church.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... On a Church Church where first my lips drank in the Mass where I hid in the confessional whose ears keep growing back where the Blessed Mother has a golden crown and bare feet the painting of St. Theresa's a beach for...

Invocation.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Invocation Ever pious and stubborn Spirit You are-yet are never seen for politeness's sake pretending you're not while we want to see hands eyes ears make faces showing off so as to be liked get married buy...

Nothing More.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Nothing More He wrote "My God" but crossed it out, thinking "my" as selfish as "I" he wrote "God of humankind" but bit his tongue remembering angels and stones in the snow resemble rabbits finally he wrote "God."...

Still Going Strong: Dante Now.(Understanding Dante)(Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture)(Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante)(Dante and the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transfiguration)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Understanding Dante. By John A. Scott. The WiLliam and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. ISBN 0-268-04451-1. Pp. 466. $35.00 Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and...

Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry. By Charlotte Clutterbuck. Hampshire, England & Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-7546-5270-X. Pp. viii + 226. $89.85. I highly recommend Charlotte Clutterbuck's...

The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend. By Joseph Goering. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-300-10661-0. Pp. xii + 181. $35.00. The current decade has seen both a popular and historical revival of interest in the...

The Cambridge Companion to John Donne.(Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to John Donne. Edited by Achsah Guibbory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii + 288. Paper, ISBN 0-52154003-8, $24.99. Cloth, ISBN 0-521-83237-3, $75.00. Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and...

Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750. By Jodi Bilinkoff. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8014-4251-3. Pp. xi + 175. $45.00 Jodi Bilinkoff's title, Related Lives, refers to the human...

Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas. By Hent de Vries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xxxiv + 720. Paper, ISBN 0-8018-8017-3, $24.95. Cloth, ISBN 0-8018-8016-5, $65.00. "There is the...

Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation. By Christopher Boyd Brown. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 0674-01075-6. Pp. 298. $39.95. Christopher Boyd Brown, assistant professor of church history...

Passionate Spirituality: Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Passionate Spirituality: Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant. By Elizabeth A. Dreyer. New York: Paulist Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8091-4304-6. Pp.v + 180. $16.95 In Passionate Spirituality, Elizabeth Dreyer deepens and widens the roots...

Forgiveness.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Forgiveness. By Vladimir Jankelevitch. Translated by Andrew Kelley. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 0-226-39213-9. Pp. xxvii + 175. $29.00. North American reception of French thought is haphazard, often taking place by...

Mel Gibson's Bible: Religion, Popular Culture, and The Passion of the Christ.(Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ)(Pondering the Passion: What's at Stake for Christians and Jews?)(Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications)(Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy)(After the Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Mel Gibson's Bible: Religion, Popular Culture, and The Passion of the Christ. Edited by Timothy K. Beal and Tod Linafelt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 208. Paper, ISBN 0-2260-3976-5, $16.00. Hardcover, ISBN...

Catherine Wheels.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Catherine Wheels. By Leif Peterson. Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2005. ISBN 1-57856-894-3. Pp. 330. $13.99. This debut novel by Leif Peterson shows a deftness of touch and maturity of style that should win him many readers....

The Moonlight House.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... The Moonlight House One thing I ask, one thing I seek, to dwell in Yahweh's house. Forget the witching mirror, the night's bobeche, the constellation on the floor-- the moon is rock, with pocks and...

Conferences and calls for papers.
March 22, 2007... The 2007 Southwestern Regional Conference will be held Sept. 28-29 in Arlington, Texas. The theme of the conference will be "Alarming Necessities: Taste, Reading, and Theology;' and keynote speakers will include Stephen Pricker and Frank Burch...