Theological and Philosophical Explorations of the Call of Literature (eBook, PDF)

Power of the Word VI
Redaktion: Lonsdale, David; Speakman, Brett H.; Di Rocco, Emilia

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the 'call' of literature, for both writers and their audiences, and reflects on how literary works have informed and drawn from - and continue to inform and draw from - theology, philosophy and sacred scripture. Key questions addressed include the following: How do creative writers and critics conceive this call? What does it mean to speak of a 'vocation' to write and what have theologians and philosophers got to say on the matter? Is the spirit of literature always or necessarily an 'angel of light'? Or is the call of literature a siren song? The essays by an international and interdisciplinary range of contributors discuss the work and testimony of writers from William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins and R.S. Thomas to James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Michel Houellebecq. Also examined are the ideas and influence of figures such as John Henry Newman, who wrote that the importance of literature stems from our very nature and God-given powers as human beings, especially language. This latest volume from The Power of the Word Project will be of interest to scholars from theology, philosophy and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040350348
• Artikelnr.: 73853338

Autorenporträt

David Lonsdale is a retired senior lecturer at Heythrop College, University of London, and a research associate at Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, UK. Emilia Di Rocco is a professor of Comparative Literature at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy. Brett H. Speakman completed his PhD at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews, UK. He teaches literature and theology at The McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: The Prophetic and the Religious Calling 1. John Henry
Newman, Poetry and the Grammar of Assent 2. The Call of Poetry 3. Calling,
Kairos, Kerygma: The Example of William Blake 4. 'It calls the calling
'manly': Some Thoughts on Gerard Manley Hopkins and Vocation 5. R. S.
Thomas - Priest and/or Poet PART II: Literary and Spiritual Journeys 6.
Flannery O' Connor: The Road to the Province of Joy 7. Goethe's Roman
Holiday: A Meeting and Mingling of Self and World 8. Detective Fiction and
the Human Search for Meaning 9. Le compte à rebours: Michel Houellebecq,
Soumission, and the Literature of Spiritual Exhaustion PART III: Deepening
the Call: Encounters Between Literature, Philosophy and Theology 10. Why
Not Flowers? A Writer in the Garden and a Call of Literature: Some Thoughts
Dedicated to Sandor Márai 11. The Unvoiced Fundamental Note: Atheistic
Literature and Divine Resonances 12. 'Not with clever speech': Tesich's
Karoo: Literary Insights on Postmodernity 13. Gerard Manley Hopkins's
Poetic Calls: The Performance of the Word 14. Hermeneutics and
Resurrection: Re-reading Virgil in Dante's Purgatorio 21-22 PART IV:
Responding to the Call 15. 'Write what it is to be man': What Literature is
Called to Do 16. The Call of the Muses and The Lure of the Sirens: Ezra
Pound's and T.S. Eliot's literary vocation 17. Poetry as a Call to Dance:
George Mackay Brown and the Healing Power of Literature 18. Poetry and
Silence: The Dilemma for the Spiritual Poet