Christianity and Literature articles from September 2005

Christianity and Literature archives from September 2005

The satanic personality in Updike's Roger's Version.(John Updike)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... The Mysterious Professor Roger Lambert, the narrator of John Updike's Roger's Version, is a perplexing character. He possesses the accouterments of comfort and success, which include a professorship at an Ivy League divinity school, a late...

Religious criticism, the verse epistle, and Donne's daring discretion.(John Donne's poems)
September 22, 2005... John Donne's verse epistle, "Honour is so sublime perfection," is his most religious poem, (1) at least in the restricted sense that the word "religion" appears in it more often than in any of his other poems. (2) This curious fact might...

Sound, silence, and voice in meditation: Coleridge, Berkeley, and the conversation poems.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Berkeley)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... ... the interment of such a treasure in a dead language must needs be contrary to the intentions of the gracious Donor. Coleridge, The Statesman's Manual As James Engell reminds us, S. T. Coleridge considered himself a Berkeleian...

You Went By.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... You Went By While flying to the next minute things forgot how to obey gravitational force in their natural fall to earth. They froze. And neither did I eye any bird, any...

Nostalgia of the everyday: earthly things as poetic criteria in Weil and Jacottet.(Simone Weil, Philippe Jaccottet)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... Simone Weil had a life-long interest in poetry and, especially in the wake of her trip to Italy in 1937, a passionate interest in fine art. Her entire way of thinking is marked by a sensitivity to the instance of the beautiful, yet scholarly...

Draw Me with You.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Draw Me with You Draw me with you. My feet are slower, they stumble. I'd rather wait, stand in awe, Dream. I'm a poet, I contemplate, I let my thoughts carry me off. Draw me with you if you want to. My way...

The moral essay redux.(A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age, Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age. By Alan Jacobs. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2001. ISBN 1-58743-014-2. Pp. 173. $18.99. Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling. By Alan Jacobs. Grand Rapids, MI: William B....

Beyond.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Beyond Take me to the end of Paradise, where I've never been, accompanied by muted trumpets. Take me with all I know of myself and with all I don't. Unbutton the shirt of my death so I can breathe the scent of the...

Poetry as a bridge to Romania.(Words Exchange Poetry Conference, Cluj, Romania)
September 22, 2005... A report on the Words Exchange Poetry Conference in Cluj, Romania, in June 2005. Poems in this issue are from Romanian poets and are translated by Andreea and Cami Luncan. It's almost midnight, a cold night in late May under the full moon...

Prayer Falling on the Platform.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Prayer Falling on the Platform For Ioan Alexandru It wasn't winter, it was no winter at all... Maybe only cold people whose eyes were like icicles aimed at you. I didn't even know what to tell you at first. Melt them,...

The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor.(Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor. By Christina Bieber Lake. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-86554-943-5. Pp. 257. $35.00. Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art. By Susan Srigley. Notre Dame: University of Notre...

Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present. By John Gatta. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-516505-5; 0-19-516506-3 (paperback). Pp. xii + 291. $24.95. John...

Joining the Conversation: Dialogues by Renaissance Women.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Joining the Conversation: Dialogues by Renaissance Women. By Janet Levarie Smart. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. ISBN 0-472-11435-2. Pp. 312. $70.00. This compelling and erudite study lays a solid foundation for two fields...

Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution. By Jaroslav Pelikan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-300-10267-4. Pp. 216. $30.00. Jaroslav Pelikan, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University, is a serious...

Dostoevsky the Thinker.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Dostoevsky the Thinker. By James P. Scanlan. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8014-3994-9. Pp. xiii + 251. $29.95. "Dostoevsky adhered to a distinguished Russian philosophical tradition that, in the words of A. A....

Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity. By Floyd Collins. Newark: University of Delaware Press and London: Associated University Presses, 2003. ISBN 0-874130-805-1. Pp. 9 + 246. $47.50 Floyd Collins's book on the life and work of Seamus...

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. By Azar Nafisi. Random House, 2004. ISBN 0-8129-7106-X. Pp. ix + 347. $13.95. Reading Lolita in Tehran offers such an unusual environment that the cultural context within which one reads the...

God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages. By Barbara Newman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ISBN 0812236912. Pp. xiii + 446. $42.50. If my experience is any gauge, the teacher of medieval...

In memoriam.(Conference on Christianity and Literature)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 22, 2005... Two highly esteemed members of the Conference on Christianity and Literature-each of them members of the Editorial Advisory Board for Christianity and Literature-recently passed away. Father J. Robert Barth, S.J., died on September 21, 2005....

CCL regional conferences.(NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS)(Calendar)
September 22, 2005... The Western Conference on Christianity and Literature will be held at Pepperdine University, March 10-11, 2006. The theme of this conference will be "The Word in the World: Christianity's Encounter with Other Cultures" For more information,...