03942nam 22007695 450 991096003450332120240508222541.09786611369620978128136962812813696249781403982995140398299610.1057/9781403982995(CKB)1000000000342602(SSID)ssj0000284799(PQKBManifestationID)11207743(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284799(PQKBWorkID)10261769(PQKB)10891006(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8299-5(MiAaPQ)EBC308331(Au-PeEL)EBL308331(CaPaEBR)ebr10150405(CaONFJC)MIL136962(OCoLC)567962627(Perlego)3497407(EXLCZ)99100000000034260220151222d2006 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrTheology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility /edited by G. Ortiz, C. Joseph1st ed. 2006.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2006.1 online resource (XII, 240 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781349533343 1349533343 9781403971982 1403971986 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 for Creative, Theological Interpretations in the Company of Julia Kristeva -- 13 Literature as Resistance: Hannah Arendt on Storytelling -- INDEX.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.TheologyLiteratureLiteraturePhilosophyChristian TheologyLiteratureLiterary TheoryTheology.Literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.Christian Theology.Literature.Literary Theory.809/.93382Ortiz Gaye Williams1794003Joseph Clara A. B953864MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960034503321Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility4334510UNINA