04695nam 2200805 a 450 991045702690332120211005104237.00-8232-3692-70-8232-4729-51-282-69906-797866126990610-8232-3741-90-8232-3062-710.1515/9780823237418(CKB)2520000000008103(MH)011983824-9(SSID)ssj0000434223(PQKBManifestationID)11279333(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000434223(PQKBWorkID)10395064(PQKB)11560406(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021338(MiAaPQ)EBC3239454(OCoLC)647876414(MdBmJHUP)muse14950(DE-B1597)554957(DE-B1597)9780823237418(Au-PeEL)EBL3239454(CaPaEBR)ebr10365072(CaONFJC)MIL269906(OCoLC)748362027(MiAaPQ)EBC476696(Au-PeEL)EBL476696(EXLCZ)99252000000000810320081216d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrCathedrals of bone[electronic resource] the role of the body in contemporary Catholic literature /John C. Waldmeir1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20091 online resource (ix, 211 p. )Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8232-3060-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-208) and index.The body, flesh and bone -- Discovering the body: Catholic literature after Vatican II -- Writing and the Catholic body: Mary Gordon's art -- Preserving the body: Annie Dillard and tradition -- Clothing bodies/making priests: the sacramental vision of J.F. Powers, Alfred Alcorn, and Louise Erdrich -- The body in doubt: Catholic literature, theology, and sexual abuse -- The body "as it was": on the occasion of Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ.The metaphor of the Church as a "body" has shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. Its influence on theological inquiries into Catholic nature and practice is well-known; less obvious is the way it has shaped a generation of Catholic imaginative writers. Cathedrals of Bone is the first full-length study of a cohort of Catholic authors whose art takes seriously the themes of the Council: from novelists such as Mary Gordon, Ron Hansen, Louise Erdrich, and J. F. Powers, to poets such as Annie Dillard, Mary Karr, Lucia Perillo, and Anne Carson, to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. Motivated by the inspirational yet thoroughly incarnational rhetoric of Vatican II, each of these writers encourages readers to think about the human body as a site-perhaps the most important site-of interaction between God and human beings. Although they represent the body in different ways, these late-twentieth-century Catholic artists share a sense of its inherent value. Moreover, they use ideas and terminology from the rich tradition of Catholic sacramentality, especially as it was articulated in the documents of Vatican II, to describe that value. In this way they challenge the Church to take its own tradition seriously and to reconsider its relationship to a relatively recent apologetics that has emphasized a narrow view of human reason and a rigid sense of orthodoxy.American literatureCatholic authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismHuman body in literatureHuman bodyReligious aspectsChristianity and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.American literatureCatholic authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Human body in literature.Human bodyReligious aspects.Christianity and literatureHistory810.9/92128273Waldmeir John Christian1959-1057568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457026903321Cathedrals of bone2492983UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress