LEADER 04695nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910457026903321 005 20211005104237.0 010 $a0-8232-3692-7 010 $a0-8232-4729-5 010 $a1-282-69906-7 010 $a9786612699061 010 $a0-8232-3741-9 010 $a0-8232-3062-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237418 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008103 035 $a(MH)011983824-9 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000434223 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11279333 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000434223 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395064 035 $a(PQKB)11560406 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239454 035 $a(OCoLC)647876414 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14950 035 $a(DE-B1597)554957 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237418 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239454 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365072 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269906 035 $a(OCoLC)748362027 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476696 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476696 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008103 100 $a20081216d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCathedrals of bone$b[electronic resource] $ethe role of the body in contemporary Catholic literature /$fJohn C. Waldmeir 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 211 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-3060-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-208) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xCatholic authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aHuman body$xReligious aspects 606 $aChristianity and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xCatholic authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aHuman body$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 676 $a810.9/92128273 700 $aWaldmeir$b John Christian$f1959-$01057568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457026903321 996 $aCathedrals of bone$92492983 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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