Cathedrals of Bone : The Role of the Body in Contemporary Catholic Literature.
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Cathedrals of Bone : The Role of the Body in Contemporary Catholic Literature.
Yazar:
Waldmeir, John C.
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9780823230624
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1 online resource (224 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Introduction: The Body, Flesh and Bone -- 1. Discovering the Body: Catholic Literature after Vatican II -- 2. Writing and the Catholic Body: Mary Gordon's Art -- 3. Preserving the Body: Annie Dillard and Tradition -- 4. Clothing Bodies/Making Priests: The Sacramental Vision of J. F. Powers, Alfred Alcorn, and Louise Erdrich -- 5. The Body in Doubt: Catholic Literature, Theology, and Sexual Abuse -- 6. The Body "As It Was": On the Occasion of Mel GibsonÌs The Passion of the Christ -- Conclusion: The Body Mutinies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Özet:
The metaphor of the Church as a GbodyG has shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. Its influence on theological inquiries into Catholic nature and practice is well known; less obvious is the way it has shaped a generation of Catholic imaginative writers. Cathedrals of Bone is the first full-length study of a cohort of Catholic authors whose art takes seriously the themes of the Council: from novelists such as Mary Gordon, Ron Hansen, Louise Erdrich, and J. F. Powers to poets such as Annie Dillard, Mary Karr, Lucia Perillo, and Anne Carson, to the Pulitzer PrizeGwinning playwright John Patrick Shanley. Motivated by the inspirational yet thoroughly incarnational rhetoric of Vatican II, each of these writers encourages readers to think about the human body as a siteGperhaps the most important siteGof interaction between God and human beings.
Notlar:
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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