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Through a glass darkly : suffering, the sacred, and the sublime in literature and theory / edited by Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, Jens Zimmermann

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[Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2010]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
Copyright Date
©2010
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1 online resource (xxvii, 450 pages) : illustrations
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Nelson, Holly Faith, 1966-, Zimmermann, Jens, 1965-, and Szabo, Lynn
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English.
Contents
Trauma and transcendence: an introduction / Holly Faith Nelson -- Sacred proposals and the spiritual subliem / David Lyle Jeffrey -- "Loke in: how weet a wounde in heere!": the wounds of Christ as a sacred space in English devotional literature / Eleanor McCullough -- Suffering in the service of Venus: the sacred, the sublime, and Chaucerian joy in the middle part of the Parliament of fowls / Norm Klassen -- Listening to Lavinia: Emmanual Levina's sayind and said in Titus Andronicus / Sean Lawrence -- Precious stories: the discursive economy in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece / Heather G.S. Johnson -- The sacred pain of penitence: the theology of John Donne's Holy Sonnets / David Anoby -- Bearing the cross: the Christian's response to suffering in Herbert's The Temple / Daniel W. Doerksen -- Horrific suffering, sacred terror, and sublime freedom in Helen Maria William's Peru / Natasha Duquette -- Joanna Baillie and the Christian Gothic: reforming society through the sublime / Christine A. Colón -- Sacramental suffering from the waters of redemption and transormation in George Eliot's fiction / Constance M. Fulner -- Christina Rossetti and the poetics of Tractarian suffering / Esther T. Hu -- Suffering in world and truth: seventeenth- and nineteenth-century Quaker women's autobiography / Robynne Rogers Healey -- Sacramental imagination: Eucharists of the ordinary universe in the works of Joyce, Proust and Wolof / Richard Kearney -- The Via Negativa in Forster's A passage to India / George Piggford -- Consolation in un/certainty: the sacred spaces of suffering in the children's fantasy literature of George Macdonald, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle / Monika B. Hilder -- The Messiah of history: the search of synchronicity in Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz / Deanna T. Smid -- Suffering and the sacred: Hugh Hood's The new age/Le nouveau siècle / Barbara Pell -- Fictional violations in Alice Munro's narratives / John C. Van Rys -- Thomas Merton and the aesthetics of the sublime: "a beautiful terror" / Lynn R. Szabo -- Belated beloved: time, trauma, and the sublime in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Steve Vine -- Annie Dillard on Holy ground: the artist as nun in the postmodern sublime / Deborah C. Bowen -- Passion plays by proxy: the Paschal face as interculturality in the works of Endō Shūsaku and Mishima Yukio / Sean Somers -- Testifying to the infinity of the Other: the sacred and ethical dimensions of secondary witnessing in Anne Karpf's The war after / Bettina Stumm -- Sacred space and the fellowship of suffering in the postmodern sublime / Richard J. Lane -- Suffering divine things : cruciform reasoning or incarnational hermenutics / Jens Zimmermann.
Summary
Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experience and language, between body and spirit, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between the human and the divine. The twenty-five essays in Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory , written by international scholars working in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and history, address the ways in which literature and theory have engaged with these three concepts and related concerns. The contributors analyze literary and theoretical texts from the medieval period to the postmodern age, from the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to those of Endô Shûsaku, Alice Munro, Annie Dillard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Slavoj?i?ek. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion and literature, philosophy and literature, aesthetic theory, and trauma studies.
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9781554582914 (electronic bk.)
1554582911 (electronic bk.)
9781554582068 (electronic bk.)
1554582067 (electronic bk.)
1282764896
9781282764897
9786612764899
6612764899
1554581842 (cloth)
9781554581849 (cloth)
9781554583058 (pbk.)
1554583055 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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