Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory

ISBN-13: 9781554583058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 480 str.

Dr Holly Faith Nelson; Lynn R. Szabo; Jens Zimmermann

Opis

Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experience and language, between body and spirit, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between the human and the divine. The twenty-five essays in Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory, written by international scholars working in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and history, address the ways in which literature and theory have engaged with these three concepts and related concerns. The contributors analyze literary and theoretical texts from the medieval period to the postmodern age, from the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to those of Endo Shusaku, Alice Munro, Annie Dillard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Slavoj Zižek. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion and literature, philosophy and literature, aesthetic theory, and trauma studies.

Spis treści

• Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory, edited by Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann
• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Trauma and Transcendence: An Introduction Holly Faith Nelson
• The Classical and Biblical Inheritance
• Sacred Proposals and the Spiritual Sublime David Lyle Jeffrey
• Medieval Visions and Dreams
• ""Loke in: How weet a wounde is here!"": The Wounds of Christ as a Sacred Space in English Devotional Literature Eleanor McCullough
• Suffering in the Service of Venus: The Sacred, the Sublime, and Chaucerian Joy in the Middle Part of the Parliament of Fowls Norm Klassen
• Shakespearean Horror
• Listening to Lavinia: Emmanuel Levinas's Saying and Said in Titus Andronicus Sean Lawrence
• Precious Stories: The Discursive Economy in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece Heather G.S. Johnson
• Metaphysical Afflictions
• The Sacred Pain of Penitence: The Theology of John Donne's Holy Sonnets David Anonby
• Bearing the Cross: The Christian's Response to Suffering in Herbert's The Temple Daniel W. Doerksen
• The Ethical Romantic Sublime
• Horrific Suffering, Sacred Terror, and Sublime Freedom in Helen Maria Williams's Peru Natasha Duquette
• Joanna Baillie and the Christian Gothic: Reforming Society through the Sublime Christine A. Colón
• Suffering and Sacrament in the Nineteenth Century
• Sacramental Suffering and the Waters of Redemption and Transformation in George Eliot's Fiction Constance M. Fulmer
• Christina Rossetti and the Poetics of Tractarian Suffering Esther T. Hu
• Suffering in Word and in Truth: Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century Quaker Women's Autobiography Robynne Rogers Healey
• Sacred Modernism(s)
• Sacramental Imagination: Eucharists of the Ordinary Universe in the Works of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf Richard Kearney
• The Via Negativa in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India George Piggford
• The Fellowship of Suffering and Hope in Fantasy Literature
• Consolation in Un/certainty: The Sacred Spaces of Suffering in the Children's Fantasy Literature of George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle Monika Hilder
• The Messiah of History: The Search for Synchronicity in Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz Deanna T. Smid
• Violation and Redemption in Canadian Fiction
• Suffering and the Sacred: Hugh Hood's The New Age / Le nouveau siécle Barbara Pell
• Fictional Violations in Alice Munro's Narratives John C. Van Rys
• The American Sublime
• Thomas Merton and the Aesthetics of the Sublime: A Beautiful Terror Lynn R. Szabo
• Belated Beloved: Time, Trauma, and the Sublime in Toni Morrison's Beloved Steve Vine
• Annie Dillard on Holy Ground: The Artist as Nun in the Postmodern Sublime Deborah Bowen
• Japanese (Re)Visioning of the Suffering Christ
• Passion Plays by Proxy: The Paschal Face as Interculturality in Endô Shûsaku and Mishima Yukio Sean Somers
• Postmodern Aesthetics and Beyond
• Testifying to the Infinity of the Other: The Sacred and Ethical Dimensions of Secondary Witnessing in Anne Karpf's The War After Bettina Stumm
• Sacred Space and the Fellowship of Suffering in the Postmodern Sublime Richard J. Lane
• Suffering Divine Things: Cruciform Reasoning or Incarnational Hermeneutics Jens Zimmermann
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index