Religion, Literature and the Imagination

Sacred Worlds
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84706-417-2
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Continuum Literary Studies

The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take.
By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that the study of religion and literature imagines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction, Mark Knight and Louise Lee (Roehampton University, UK)
2. Notes Toward a Supreme Addiction: The Theology Fiction of William Blake and Philip K. Dick, Geoffrey Hartman (Yale University, USA)
3. God’s Little Mountains: Young Geoffrey Hill and the Problem of Religious Poetry, Kevin Hart (University of Virginia, USA)
4. Religion, Truth and the ‘New Aestheticism’, Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
5. The Deconstruction of Christianity: From the Hand of God to the Hand of Man, Arthur Bradley (Lancaster University, UK)
6. Deity in Dispatches: Charles Kingsley and the Crimean Roots of Muscular Christianity, Louise Lee (Roehampton University, UK)
7. Israel Zangwill, Jewish Identity, and Visceral Religion, Jo Carruthers (Bristol University, UK)
8. I am Not Walter Benjamin, John Schad (Lancaster University, UK)
10. ‘The Oldest Dream of All’: Heaven in Contemporary Fiction, Andrew Tate (Lancaster University, UK)
11. Biblical Time and Psychological Time: De Quincey’s Uses of the Bible, Jonathan Roberts (Liverpool University, UK)
12. Re-imagining Biblical Exegesis, Christopher Rowland (Oxford University, UK)
13. Saving Literary Criticism, Mark Knight (Roehampton University, UK) and Emma Mason (University of Warwick, UK)
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Knight, Mark Knight is Reader in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. His books include Chesterton and Evil (Fordham University Press, 2004), Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000 (co-edited with Thomas Woodman, Ashgate, 2006), and Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (co-written with Emma Mason, OUP, 2007). With Emma Mason he is editing the new book series New Directions in Religion and Literature for Continuum.

Louise Lee, Louise Lee is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College London, UK.