Theology and literature after postmodernity
By: Edited by Zoë Lehmann Imfeld, Peter Hampson, and Alison Milbank ; Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas
Series: T & T Clark Religion and the University Series -- Volume 3; T & T Clark theology
Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, An Imprint of Bloomsburry Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780567251145; 9780567304148; 9780567654953
Subjects: Theology in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Criticism; Religion and literature
Description: "This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a dialogue with interdisciplinary approaches to literature in which theology is alert and responsive to the challenges following post-modernism and post-modern literary criticism. It demonstrates the scope and explanatory power of theological readings across a various texts and literary genres. Theology and Literature after Post-Modernity explores a reconstructive approach to reading and literary study in the university setting, with contributions from interdisciplinary scholars worldwide" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Hospitable conversations in theology and literature: re-opening a space to be human / The Editors. Part 1: Pedagogy. 1. Religion, History, and Faithful Reading / Susannah Brietz Monta, University of Notre Dame, USA;  2. Theology, Literature and Prayer: A Pedagogical Suggestion / Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame, US; 3. Bleak Liturgies: R. S. Thomas and "changes not to his liking" / Hester Jones, University of Bristol, UK; title: Part 2: Theological and Literary Reconstructions.  4. Belief and Imagination / Graham Ward, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK ;  5. Literary Apologetics beyond Postmodernism: Duality and Death in Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling / Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK; 6. Cusa: A Pre-modern Postmodern Reader of Shakespeare / Johannes Hoff, Heythrop College, UK and Peter Hampson, Blackfriars Hall, UK;  7.'The One Life within Us and Abroad': Pathetic Fallacy Reconsidered / Gavin Hopps, University of St Andrews, UK ; 8. Love Among the Ruins: Hermeneutics of Theology and Literature in the University after the 20th century / Jeffrey Keuss, Seattle Pacific University, USA; 9. "Thrashing between Exoneration and Excoriation: Creating Narratives in We Need to Talk about Kevin / Zoë Lehmann Imfeld, University of Bern, Switzerland; 10. The Shakespeare Music: Eliot and von Balthasar on Shakespeare's "romances" and the "ultra-dramatic" / Aaron Riches, Instituto de Teología Lumen Gentium, Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein, Spain; 11. Fictioning Things: Gift and Narrative / John Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK; 12. Language, Reality and Desire in Augustine's De Doctrina / Rowan Williams, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK.