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Title

Spiritual identities : literature and the post-secular imagination / Jo Carruthers and Andrew Tate (eds).

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Carruthers, Jo.
• Tate, Andrew, 1971-

Description

xi, 236 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This collection of essays considers the return of the religious in contemporary literary studies. In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred 'turn' in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism) and a re-invention of the religious imaginary (apophaticism, messianism, apocalypticism, fundamentalism). In literary studies, the implications of the post-secular are revitalizing critical engagement with canonical works and fuelling the reclaiming of neglected writings as questions of the construction of spiritual identities come once again to the fore. -- Back cover.

Series Statement

Cultural interactions : studies in the relationship between the arts ; v. 17

Uniform Title

Cultural interactions v. 17

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism
• Englisch
• English literature > Theory, etc
• Literatur
• Religion (Motiv)
• Religion and literature > Great Britain > History
• Religion and literature > United States > History
• Religion in literature
• Spirituality in literature

Genre/Form

• Kongress.
• Lancaster (Lancashire, 2004)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / GAVIN D'COSTA ---- Introduction : Writing Post-Secularity / ARTHUR BRADLEY, JO CARRUTHERS AND ANDREW TATE ---- 1. 'Never Enough Silence': Conflicts Between Spiritual and Literary Creativity / SARA MAITLAND --- 2. The Liminal Spiritual Identity of Susanna Harrison (1752-1784) / NANCY JIWON CHO --- 3. Evangelicalism and Religious Crisis: The Experience of George Eliot / BRIAN INGRAM --- 4. A Spiritual Geography of Wuthering Heights / SIMON MARSDEN --- 5. Sensibility into Sense: Barbauld, Hemans and Religious Commitment / EMMA MASON --- 6. Spiritual Humanisms / ANDY MOUSLEY --- 7. Identity, Inferiority and Snow / DAVID M. BUYZE --- 8. Consumer in a Coma: Douglas Couplands Rewriting of the Contemporary Apocalypse / MARY MCCAMPBELL --- 9. 'Multiplicity Destroyed by Singularity': Salman Rushdie and Religious Hybridity / NICOLE M. GYULAY --- 10. Controlling the Word: Authority and Exegesis in Octavia Butler's Parables / SARAH WOOD --- 11. Israel under the Shadow of the Holocaust in David Grossman's See Under: Love: A Post-Religious National Entity? / ANNA HARTNELL --- 12. Sex and Satanism in Susan Howatch's The High Flyer and The Heartbreaker / WILLIAM KUPERSMITH AND JAN S. WAPLES --- 13. 'Call God Jouissance': Sara Maitland and the Moral Psychotic / JOHN RUSSELL.

ISBN

• 9783039119257 (alk. paper)
• 3039119257 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009007199

OCLC

312096149

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library