LEADER 04201nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910956354203321 005 20251006184313.0 010 0 $a9780195356199 010 0 $a0195356195 010 $a0-19-985345-2 010 $a1-4294-1560-6 010 $a1-280-52859-1 010 $a0-19-535619-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7034414 035 $a(CKB)24235095300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC271397 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL271397 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142253 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52859 035 $a(OCoLC)935260039 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7034414 035 $a(OCoLC)1336402798 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235095300041 100 $a19960909d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEntangled voices $egenre and the religious construction of the self /$fFrederick J. Ruf 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1997 215 $ax, 125 p 311 08$a9780195102635 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 103-120) and index. 327 $tIntroduction: hearing voices --$gch. 1.$tThe voices of narrative, lyric, and drama:$tThe three characteristics of narrative --$tLyric --$tDrama --$gch. 2.$t"Jogona's great treasure": narrative, lyric, and dramatic intelligibility:$tIntelligibility: Comprehensiveness and cohesion --$tConclusions --$gch. 3.$t"Intoxicated with intimacy": the lyric voice in John Donne's Holy sonnets:$tUnruly autobiography --$tDonne's Holy sonnets --$tDonne's lyric self --$tThe lyric voice --$gch. 4.$t"The circle of chalk": narrative voice in Primo Levi's The periodic table:$tThe periodic table --$tThe aspiration to narrative --$tNarrative instability --$t"The rich and messy domain" --$gch. 5.$t"Survival and distance": the dramatic voice in Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach:$tEinstein on the beach --$tDramatic voice in Einstein --$tThe dramatic voice and religion --$tThe dramatic self --$gch.. 6.$t"Harmonized chaos": the mixed voice of Coleridge's Biographia literaria:$tThe biographia literaria --$tThe form of the Biographia --$tDissociation, fragmentation, and incoherence --$tHarmony and unity --$tRamifications: the "mixed" self --$gch. 7.$tConclusion: genre and instability. 330 $aIn this book, Ruf tries to understand how the concepts of "voice" and "genre" function in texts, especially religious texts. To this end, he joins literary theorists in the discussion about "narrative." Ruf rejects the idea of genre as a fixed historical form that serves as a template for readers and writers; instead, he suggests that we imagine different genres, whether narrative, lyric, or dramatic, as the expression of different voices. Each voice, he asserts, possesses different key qualities: embodiment, sociality, contextuality, and opacity in the dramatic voice; intimacy, limitation, urgency in lyric; and a "magisterial" quality of comprehensiveness and cohesiveness in narrative. These voices are models for our selves, composing an unruly and unstable multiplicity of selves. Ruf applies his theory of "voice" and "genre" to five texts: Dineson's Out of Africa, Donne's Holy Sonnets, Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Through these literary works, he discerns the detailed ways in which a text constructs a voice and, in the process, a self. More importantly, Ruf demonstrates that this process is a religious one, fulfilling the function that religions traditionally assume: that of defining the self and its world. 606 $aReligious literature, English$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aLiterary form 615 0$aReligious literature, English$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 0$aLiterary form. 676 $a820.9/382 700 $aRuf$b Frederick J.$f1950-$01850780 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956354203321 996 $aEntangled voices$94443976 997 $aUNINA