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Titolo: |
Theology and literature : rethinking reader responsibility / / edited by Gaye Williams Ortiz and Clara A.B. Joseph
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XII, 240 p.) |
Disciplina: | 809/.93382 |
Soggetto topico: | Religion and literature |
Religion in literature | |
Altri autori: |
OrtizGaye Williams
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Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Theology and literature ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-36962-4 |
9786611369620 | |
1-4039-8299-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825604403321 |
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