LEADER 03529nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910825604403321 005 20240516013145.0 010 $a1-281-36962-4 010 $a9786611369620 010 $a1-4039-8299-6 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403982995 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342602 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207743 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261769 035 $a(PQKB)10891006 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8299-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC308331 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL308331 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10150405 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136962 035 $a(OCoLC)567962627 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342602 100 $a20051101d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTheology and literature $erethinking reader responsibility /$fedited by Gaye Williams Ortiz and Clara A.B. Joseph 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (XII, 240 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-349-53334-3 311 $a1-4039-7198-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aBy 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. 606 $aReligion and literature 606 $aReligion in literature 615 0$aReligion and literature. 615 0$aReligion in literature. 676 $a809/.93382 701 $aOrtiz$b Gaye Williams$01655471 701 $aJoseph$b Clara A. B$0953864 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825604403321 996 $aTheology and literature$94007905 997 $aUNINA