A Poetics of Church: Reading and Writing Sacred Spaces of Poetic Dwelling

ISBN-13: 9781472488381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 186 str.

Jennifer Reek

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In writing that is both literary and theological, Jennifer Reek invites us on an imaginative intellectual and spiritual journey away from an institutional model of Church into more radical, ambiguous 'sacred' spaces of text. She creates the latter by bringing together an unlikely but fruitful group: the 16th-century founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius of Loyola, the French thinkers Gaston Bachelard and Helene Cixous, the French poet Yves Bonnefoy, and the English playwright Dennis Potter. Inspired especially by Cixous, Reek attempts to exemplify her notion of ecriture feminine-'feminine writing'-that Cixous suggests 'will bring about alternative forms of relation, perception and expression', ones 'that will invent new worlds'.

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Foreword by David Jasper;  Introduction(s);  Part I: Home;  1 Skirting the Edges: Tina Beattie and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Church;  2 Gaston Bachelard Takes Us to Church;  3 Transfigurations with Yves Bonnefoy;  Part II: Leaving Home: From Temple to Text;  4 What Is Church When Church Is Not?;  5 The Poet Sets the Path: a Reading of Hélène Cixous’ Manna;  6 (Trans)Forming Faith with Yves Bonnefoy, Hélène Cixous and Ignatius of Loyola;  7 Poetry and Prayer: an ‘Inner Kinship’;  Part III: Transformative Homecomings;  8 ‘But Now My Eye Sees You’: Reading Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective and the Book of Job with Hélène Cixous;  9 Believing as a Poet: ‘Writing All the Way Down’

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Jennifer Reek has a PhD from the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow. Her work has appeared in journals such as Literature and Theology and Contemporary Women’s Writing. She is co-editor of the forthcoming fourth volume of the Routledge Power of the Word series, Thresholds of Wonder: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation. Currently, she teaches seminars in Great Books in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut.