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Titolo |
Theology and literature : rethinking reader responsibility / / edited by Gaye Williams Ortiz and Clara A.B. Joseph |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36962-4 |
9786611369620 |
1-4039-8299-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XII, 240 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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OrtizGaye Williams |
JosephClara A. B |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Religion and literature |
Religion in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- THE EDITORS -- On Reader Responsibility: An Introduction -- Part I A Theory of Ethical Reading -- 1 Some Dilemmas of an Ethics of Literature -- Part II Reading and the Biblical -- 2 Only Irresponsible People would go into the Desert for Forty Days: Jim Crace's Quarantine Or the Diary of another Madman -- 3 The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Rhetoricizing the Foundations -- 4 Samuel Beckett's Use of the Bible and the Responsibility of the Reader -- 5 On Trial: Mikhail Bakhtin and Abram Tertz's Address to "God" -- 6 Bible and Ethics: Moral Formation and Analogical Imagination -- Part III Reading and the Literary -- 7 The Playwright, the Novelist, and the Comedian: A Case Study in Audience Responsibility -- 8 Dialogue in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule or the Reader as Truth-Seeker -- 9 Responsibly Performing Vulnerability: Salman Rushdie's Fury and Edgar Laurence Doctorow's City of God -- 10 The "Indian" Character of Modern Hindi Drama: Neo-Sanskritic, Pro-Western Naturalistic, or Nativistic Dramas? -- 11 Film and Apocryphal Imitation of the Feminine-Judith of Bethulia -- 12 Revolting Fantasies: Reviewing the Cinematic Image as Fruitful Ground |
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for Creative, Theological Interpretations in the Company of Julia Kristeva -- 13 Literature as Resistance: Hannah Arendt on Storytelling -- INDEX. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories. |
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