Burrows / Ward / Grzegorzewska Poetic Revelations

Word Made Flesh Made Word
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-07953-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily experience (i.e., the 'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is around a 'phenomenology of flesh' as that which connects us with the world, being the site of perception and feeling, joy and suffering, and of life itself in all its vulnerability. The diversity of voices and interests explored here are interdisciplinary in method and broadly ecumenical in approach, focusing attention on such matters as the revelatory nature of language in general and poetic language in particular; the function of poetry in society; the question of incarnation and its relation to language and the poetic arts; the kenosis of the Word; and human embodiment in relation to the word 'enfleshed' in poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burrows, Mark

Ward, Jean

Grzegorzewska, Malgorzata

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I: Word Made Word: Poetry and the Re-Making of the World 1. Poetry Human and Divine Michael Edwards 2. ‘The Word spoke in our words that we might speak in his’: Augustine, the Psalms, and the Poetry of the Incarnate Word Kevin Grove, CSC 3. The Word of God Woven into the Poetic Word: The Idea of Logos in the Poetry of George Herbert and Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski Krystyna Wierzbicka-Trwoga 4 ‘Eternity Shut in a Span’: The Word Being Born and Giving Birth in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw Sonia Jaworska 5. Elizabeth Jennings and the Mysticism of Words Anna Walczuk Part II: Flesh Made Word: Poetry as the Saying of the Self 6. Revelation and Inspiration among Theologians and Poets Richard Viladesau 7. Word Made Flesh Made Word. On the Poetic Force of Macbeth Marta Gibinska 8. ‘Like a Word Still Ripening in the Silences’: Rainer Maria Rilke and the Transformations of Poetry Mark S. Burrows 9. The Logos of the Guess Bradford Manderfield 10. Still-Born Words and Still Life Worlds in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot Malgorzata Grzegorzewska Part III: Word Made Flesh: The Poem as Body Enclosed in Language 11. Incarnations in the Ear: Poetry and Presence Angela Leighton 12. T. S. Eliot on Metaphysical Poetry and the Case of Prufrock Francesca Bugliani-Knox 13. ‘The poem’s muscle, blood and lymph’: David Constantine’s Poetic Bodies Monika Szuba 14. Divine Eloquence. R. S. Thomas and the Matter of Logos Joanna Socko 15. Incarnation and the Feminine in David Jones’s In Parenthesis Jean Ward Epilogue: Poetry as Vehicle of Divine Presence David Brown

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Burrows is professor of religion and literature at the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A medievalist by training, his academic work focuses on the intersection of mysticism and poetics. His poems and translations have recently appeared in Poetry, 91st Meridian, The Anglican Theological Review, Southern Quarterly, Eremos, The Tablet, Weavings, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Metamorphoses, and Almost Island, among others. Recent publications include two volumes of German poetry in translation: Rainer Maria Rilke’s Prayers of a Young Poet (2013) and the German-Iranian poet SAID’s 99 Psalms (2013); a forthcoming volume of his recent poems, The Chance of Home, will be published in 2016.

Jean Ward is a professor of English Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies of Gdansk University, Poland. Her research interests include British, Irish and Polish poetry, religious poetry and problems of literary translation. Her study in Polish of the Polish reception of T. S. Eliot’s poetry was published in 2001. She has edited a collection of critical essays in Polish on incarnational aspects of T. S. Eliot’s poetry (2015). Her book Christian Poetry in the Post-Christian Day: Geoffrey Hill, R. S. Thomas, Elizabeth Jennings was published in 2009 and her translation of Tadeusz Slawek's monograph, Henry David Thoreau – Grasping the Community of the World in 2014, both with Peter Lang.

Malgorzata Grzegorzewska teaches English literature in the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. She has published extensively on Shakespeare (her two books in Polish were devoted to the discussion of Shakespeare's tragedies of revenge and the connections between metaphysical aspects of ancient tragedy and Shakespeare's drama) and the Metaphysical Poets, as well as on the connections between literature and philosophy (Kierkegaard, Marion, Henry). Her most recent book is entitled George Herbert and Post-Phenomenology. A Gift for Our Times" (forthcoming).