Christianity and Literature articles from September 2007

Christianity and Literature archives from September 2007

Pointed remarks: scholasticism and the gothic in the English counter-enlightenment.
September 22, 2007... While history in prose and verse was... made the instrument of Church feelings and opinions, a philosophical basis for the same was laid in England by a very original thinker, who... instilled a higher philosophy into inquiring minds, than...

Down the Sea's Throat, Singing.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Down the Sea's Throat, Singing You fell seven times into the wide river where we danced loud as Peru--the pentatonic cashua, gold all over. Your eyes were mackerel-blue, two fish flicking themselves out of farms ...

Elective divinities: exile and religious conversion in Alfred Doblin's Schicksalsreise (Destiny's Journey), Karl Jakob Hirsch's Heimkehr zu Gott (Return to God), and Karl Sterns The Pillar of Fire.
September 22, 2007... But paradise is sealed and the cherub stands behind us; we must make the journey around the world and see if it is open somewhere from behind... --Heinrich von Kleist, On the Marionette Theater (342) (1) While escaping from the...

Salt Formations.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Salt Formations Lot's Wife I turned and looked when told that I should not, And turned to salt, a statue of a woman. And yet it was my tears that made me human. Who doesn't say good-bye? If this is sin, I...

Starry Night.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Starry Night That does not keep me from having a terrible need of--shall I say the word--religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars. --Vincent Van Gogh A whirlpool of light like a head thrown loose...

A scripture of their own: nineteenth-century bible biography and feminist bible criticism.
September 22, 2007... The now well-established school of feminist Bible criticism has its nineteenth-century forebears. The movement to interpret the Bible from a gendered perspective began as a product of second-wave feminism in the 1970s, although scholars...

Ash Wednesday.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Ash Wednesday How comforting, the smudge on each forehead: I'm not to be singled out after all. From dust you came. To dust you will return. My mastectomy, a memento mori, prosthesis smooth as a polished skull. I...

From Ahasverus to Orpheus: transformations of Christ in Rainer Maria Rilke.
September 22, 2007... The Prague-born poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) provides an important case study for the ambivalent appropriation of Christian discourse in modernist literature. His crowning poetic achievements of the Duino Elegies (1912-22) and the...

St. Melville: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... St. Melville Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx "Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs"--Moby-Dick Is this what you were called to, still pilgrim, to sleep beneath six small feet of...

Local Warming.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Local Warming Finally, the storm you've waited for Since well before Thanksgiving--a nor'easter Willed itself out of the west, exceeding even your wish That just this once you'd have the twelve Rather than five of the...

Cradling lives in our hands: towards a theory of cultural biography.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Melville: His World and Work. By Andrew Delbanco. New York: Knopf, 2005. ISBN 9-780-3303-7107-0. Pp. 300. $39.99. William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life. By Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN:...

Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse, and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse, and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon. By Michael Lieb. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-8207-0374-5. Pp. Xii + 348. $60.00. Ever since the late William B. Hunter's 1992 Studies in...

The Humble Story of Don Quixote. Reflections on the Birth of the Modern Novel.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Humble Story of Don Quixote. Reflections on the Birth of the Modern Novel. By Cesareo Bandera. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8132-1452-8. Pp. 318. $79.95. According to Cesareo Bandera's new book, two...

The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge. By Michael McKeon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0-8018-8220-3 (cloth); 0-8018-8540-2 (paper). Pp. xxvii + 873. $60.00 (cloth);...

The Erotic Phenomenon.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Erotic Phenomenon. By Jean-Luc Marion. Translated by Stephen E. Lewis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 0-226-50536-7. Pp. ix + 230. $35.00. Jean-Luc Marion is an audacious thinker. Le Phenomene erotique (2003), now...

The Notebooks of Robert Frost.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Notebooks of Robert Frost. Edited by Robert Faggen. Cambridge: The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. ISBN-13 978-0-674-0231-6. Pp. xxix + 809. $39.95. Robert Faggen, editor and annotator of this volume, writes in the...

Touching God: The Novels of Georges Bernanos and the Films of Robert Bresson.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Touching God: The Novels of Georges Bernanos and the Films of Robert Bresson. By Beth Kathryn Curran. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. ISBN 0-8204-78726-1. Pp. viii + 124. $58.95. Beth Curran's new book on Bernanos and Bresson is a long-overdue...

A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. By Bernard Bergonzi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-929102-0. Pp. ix + 197. $29.95. Bernard Bergonzi is a longstanding doyen of English literary studies,...

Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy. By Gary M. Ciuba. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0807131756. $47.50. Gary...

Not Necessarily Another Angel Poem.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Not Necessarily Another Angel Poem I've been trying to bring the hummingbirds close, Trying hard to train my eyes to see their wings as wings Instead of movement, trying to be still enough to See that quickly. Just in case....