Literature and Spirituality in the English-Speaking World.
Title:
Literature and Spirituality in the English-Speaking World.
Author:
Birat, Kathie.
ISBN:
9783035202533
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Series:
Recherches en littérature et spiritualité ; v.22
Recherches en littérature et spiritualité
Contents:
Cover -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Kathie BIRAT and Brigitte ZAUGG, editors 3 -- Spirituality and Society -- Demelza MARLIN: Incarnation and the Spirit of the Social 13 -- Miriam WALLRAVEN: Spirituality and Politics? Spiritual Models of Culture and Methods of World-making in Postmodern Utopian Texts 31 -- Françoise COUTURIER-STOREY and Jeff STOREY: "God is a cluster of neurons": Spirituality and Gene Manipulation in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake 47 -- Mokhtar BEN BARKA: Left Behind as an Example of the Intersection between Fiction and Fundamentalist Christianity 61 -- Spirituality and Poetry -- Hyesook SON: "Puritan Spirit" and the Question of the Other: A Levinasian Reading of Emily Dickinson's Religious Poems 81 -- Brigitte ZAUGG: A Haven for the Suffering Soul: Ellen Glasgow's Lifelong Quest 99 -- Bénédicte CHORIER-FRYD: The Lives of a Spirit: Mystical Bewilderment in Fanny Howe's Fiction 119 -- Christophe LEBOLD: ''I'm the little Jew who wrote the Bible." A Reconfiguration of the Devotional Poet for the Age of the Mass Media: Leonard Cohen's Holy Hoaxes 133 -- Spirituality in the Americas -- Stéphanie CARREZ: "Fire-Worship": Nathaniel Hawthorne's Spirituality of Fire 147 -- Claude LE FUSTEC: The Spirit of the Letter: American Literature and the Quest for Kerygmatic Power 161 -- Mirjana DANICIC: The Spiritual Power of Toni Morrison's Fiction 177 -- Kathie BIRAT: Syncretism and Spirituality in the Literature of the English-Speaking Caribbean: Erna Brodber's Myal 193 -- Sina VATANPOUR: Metaphysics of Language and the Experience of Writing in Paul Auster's City of Glass 205 -- Abstracts 221 -- The Authors 229.
Abstract:
This collection of essays focuses on the role of spirituality in American literature through an examination of the multiple ways in which a deep engagement with the spiritual has shaped and affected literature in the Americas (three of the essays involve Canadian and Caribbean literature). The essays in the first section explore the intimate links between the spiritual and the social as they are manifested in forms of fiction like fantasy, science fiction, and the Christian fundamentalist fiction of Jerry B. Jenkins. The second section looks at the ways in which poetry has allowed writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Ellen Glasgow, Fanny Howe and Leonard Cohen to use language as a tool for exploring their complex relation to the spiritual seen in terms of radical otherness, or of exile, or of the search for common ground as human beings. The final section approaches spirituality as a defining element of the American experience, from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison and Paul Auster.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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