Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
9781554582914
9781554582068
9781282764897
Through a glass darkly : suffering, the sacred, and the sublime in literature and theory
Trauma and transcendence: an introduction / Sacred proposals and the spiritual subliem / "Loke in: how weet a wounde in heere!": the wounds of Christ as a sacred space in English devotional literature / Suffering in the service of Venus: the sacred, the sublime, and Chaucerian joy in the middle part of the Parliament of fowls / Listening to Lavinia: Emmanual Levina's sayind and said in Titus Andronicus / Precious stories: the discursive economy in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece / The sacred pain of penitence: the theology of John Donne's Holy Sonnets / Bearing the cross: the Christian's response to suffering in Herbert's The Temple / Horrific suffering, sacred terror, and sublime freedom in Helen Maria William's Peru / Joanna Baillie and the Christian Gothic: reforming society through the sublime / Sacramental suffering from the waters of redemption and transormation in George Eliot's fiction / Christina Rossetti and the poetics of Tractarian suffering / Suffering in world and truth: seventeeth- and nineteenth-century Quaker women's autobiography / Sacramental imagination: Eucharists of the ordinary universe in the works of Joyce, Proust and Wolof / The Via Negativa in Forster's A passage to India / 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 / The Messiah of history: the search of synchronicity in Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz / Suffering and the sacred: Hugh Hood's The new age/Le nouveau siècle / Fictional violations in Alice Munro's narratives / Thomas Merton and the aesthetics of the sublime: "a beautiful terror" / Belated beloved: time, trauma, and the sublime in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Annie Dillard on Holy ground: the artist as nun in the postmodern sublime / Passion plays by proxy: the Paschal face as interculturality in the works of Endō Shūsaku and Mishima Yukio / Testifying to the infinity of the Other: the sacred and ethical dimensions of secondary witnessing in Anne Karpf's The war after / Sacred space and the fellowship of suffering in the postmodern sublime / Suffering divine things : cruciform reasoning or incarnational hermenutics
Nelson, Holly Faith, 1966-
Zimmermann, Jens, 1965-
Szabo, Lynn.
Holly Faith Nelson -- David Lyle Jeffrey -- Eleanor McCullough -- Norm Klassen -- Sean Lawrence -- Heather G.S. Johnson -- David Anoby -- Daniel W. Doerksen -- Natasha Duquette -- Christine A. Colón -- Constance M. Fulner -- Esther T. Hu -- Robynne Rogers Healey -- Richard Kearney -- George Piggford -- Monika B. Hilder -- Deanna T. Smid -- Barbara Pell -- John C. Van Rys -- Lynn R. Szabo -- Steve Vine -- Deborah C. Bowen -- Sean Somers -- Bettina Stumm -- Richard J. Lane -- Jens Zimmermann.
edited by Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, Jens Zimmermann.
Through a glass darkly : suffering, the sacred, and the sublime in literature and theory
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