Christianity and Literature articles from September 2008

Christianity and Literature archives from September 2008

Enriched by otherness: the transformational journey of Cabeza de Vaca.(Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion presents one of the earliest accounts of Spanish exploration in North America. Although it begins as a common tale of a sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador in search of gold and glory, Cabeza de Vaca's...

Gardens, Gardens.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Gardens, Gardens When Florence, sacred city of art, was plagued with famine, the holy bishop filled his floral gardens with peas and beans to feed his people. Who would not applaud his charity! And yet, I think...

Charlotte Bronte's religion: faith, feminism, and Jane Eyre.
September 22, 2008... Modern literary criticism has long recognized Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre (1847) as a pivotal text for feminists. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's ground-breaking study The Madwoman in the Attic locates the enduring appeal of this novel in its...

Husbandry, March.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Husbandry, March My outer house rejects sepulchral snow. Peopled by children, it is a dervish place. My inner house has been unoccupied of late, But I remember, with precision, The iron return of the crocus. ...

"The missing all": Emily Dickinson's apophatic poetics.(Critical essay)(Reprint)
September 22, 2008... The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-- --Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson has long been regarded as a peculiarly enigmatic figure for her puzzling and oftentimes...

"In the Humble Fashion of a Scripture Woman": The Bible as Besieging Tool in Freeman's "The Revolt of 'Mother'".(Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Much bas been written about Sarah Penn, the rural, New England heroine of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's story, "The Revolt of 'Mother'" (1891). Sarah-who has been waiting forty years for the new house her husband, Adoniram, promised her--one day...

On eloquence and purpose.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... On Eloquence. By Denis Donoghue. New Haven: Yale University Press 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-12541-2. Pp. 199. $27.50. Eloquence upon eloquence. How can one argue against it? Yet that is my task in this review: to honor this eloquent defense of...

Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans. By Michael J. Colacurcio. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ISBN 0-268-02290-9. Pp. xix + 650. $50.00. Under present circumstances, and with foreseeable prospects in...

Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival. By G. Ronald Murphy, S. J. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-530639-2. Pp. ix + 241. $29.95. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival has been seen as a precursor to the...

Religious Idiom and the African American Novel, 1953-1998.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Religious Idiom and the African American Novel, 1953-1998. By Tuire Valkeakari. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8130-3055-5. Pp.ix+ 261. $59.95 Tuire Valkeakari offers a richly detailed and scholarly study of...

Jean Sulivan: Libre sous le regard de Dieu.(Jean Sulivan (1913-1980): La marginalite dans la vie et l'oeuvre)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jean Sulivan: Libre sous le regard de Dieu. By Patrick Gormally and Mary Anne Mannion. Editions Fides. Quebec, 2006. ISBN 2-7621-2692-4 * ISBN 978-2-76211691-1. Pp. 139. Jean Sulivan (1913-1980): La marginalite dans la vie et l'oeuvre. By...

Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England. By Susan E. Phillips. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007. ISBN 13: 978-0-27102994-8. Pp. x + 238. $45.00. That gossip is a powerful force is surely little...

Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy. By Justin Steinberg. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. ISBN -13: 978-0-268-04122-9. ISBN-10: 0-268-04122-9. Pp. xiii + 234. $30. For all its virtues,...

The Literary Study Bible.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Literary Study Bible. Edited by Leland Ryken and Philip Graham Ryken. Wheaton: Crossway Bibles, 2007. ISBN 978-1-58134-808-8. Pp. xxiv + 1913. $49.99. Upon registering for a Bible as Literature course as an undergraduate, I round that...

The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World. Edited by Emily Griesinger and Mark Eaton. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-932792-47-3. Pp. xii +391. $39.95. Emily Griesinger and Mark Eaton developed The Gift of...

The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings. By Dale Brown. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-664-23113-2. Pp. xviii +394. $24.95. No one should underestimate how daunting it must be to attempt a compelling...

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis. By Michael Ward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 978-0-19-531387-1 (cloth). Pp. 347. $29.95. Brilliantly conceived. Intellectually provocative. Rhetorically...

A Watchman's Song.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... A Watchman's Song 1. How many sons to build a city-neighborhoods, markets and parks, a palace? And across how many generations to defend it? My hand on this hilt. 2. Necessity peels from cedar...

Philia.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Philia What the planet does: make noise--burp of geothermal mud holes, sneeze of surf, long, low tectonic groan of shifting plates. And not only noise, but odors. A boyhood favorite: hydrogen sulfide, the...