Seeing into the life of things : essays on literature and religious experience / [electronic resource]
Mahoney, John L.
New York : Fordham University Press,
1998.
Different subtitle on dust jacket cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / John L. Mahoney -- Pt. 1. Some theoretical perspecitves. The need for a religious literary criticism / Dennis Taylor -- Imagination's arc : the spiritual development of readers / J. A. Appleyard -- The gendered imagination in religion and literature / Philip C. Rule -- The Paschal action and the Christian imagination / John Boyd -- Moral cross-dressing : contemporary trends in liberal preaching and literary criticism / Charles J. Rzepka and Rev. Jane R. Rzepka -- Pt. 2. Some practical approaches. The saint's underwear : a postmodern reflection on the rule and life of St. Benedict with help from Gregory the Great and Hildegard of Bingen / Robert Kiely -- Prayer, poetry, and Paradise lost : Samuel Johnson as reader of Milton's Christian epic / Stephen Fix -- Reading transcendentalist texts religiously : Emerson, Thoreau, and the myth of secularization / Kevin Van Anglen -- Gender and the religious vision : Katherine Lee Bates and poetic elegy / Melinda Ponder -- In the churchyard, outside the church : personal mysticism and ecclesiastical politics in two poems by Charlotte Smith / John M. Anderson -- The sacramental vision of Gerard Manley Hopkins / J. Robert Barth --
(cont.) Reading modern religious autobiographies : multidimensional and multicultural approaches / David Leigh -- "Large and startling figures" : the grotesque and the sublime in the short stories of Flannery O' Connor / Michael Raiger -- Sour grapes : Ezekiel and the literature of social justice / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Wallace Steven's spiritual voyage : a Christian path to conversion / Dorothy Judd Hall -- Poetry, language, and identity : a note on Seamus Heaney / Richard Kearney -- Stevie Smith : skepticism and the poetry of religious experience / John L. Mahoney -- Acts of God : film, religion, and "FX" / Judith Wilt.
Religion and literature.
Religion in literature.
Literature