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Wrestling With Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry, Paul T. Corrigan
Wrestling With Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry, Paul T. Corrigan
Paul T. Corrigan
In the current “secular age,” more and more people find beliefs and behaviors associated with traditional religion intellectually and ethically untenable. At the same time, many “postsecular” writers, both believers and nonbelievers, continue to write with religious or religiously-inflected forms, themes, and purposes. In the United States, postsecular poets “wrestle with angels” by engaging constructively and deconstructively with matters traditionally considered the domain of religion and spirituality. While the recent work of Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, John McClure and others puts the concept of the postsecular at the cutting edge of various fields of study, including religion, sociology, and literature, …
Ishmael's Doubts And Intuitions, Brian Yothers
Crack'd Archangel: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, The Bible, And Religious Difference In Melville's Fiction And Poetry, Brian Yothers
Crack'd Archangel: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, The Bible, And Religious Difference In Melville's Fiction And Poetry, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract for December 28, 2009 MLA Paper published in March 2010 Leviathan
Melville And Religious Experience, Brian Yothers
Melville And Religious Experience, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract for Melville Society panel at ALA 2010 on Melville and Religious Experience (I was the organizer and chair) published in October 2010 Leviathan
The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers
The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such …
Fade To Black: The Failure Of Sacrifice In Faulkner's Light In August, Peter J. Goodwin
Fade To Black: The Failure Of Sacrifice In Faulkner's Light In August, Peter J. Goodwin
Peter J Goodwin
Faulkner's Light in August examines the vexed and volatile relationship between religion, justice, and personal and national violence. Drawing on the work of Girard, Bataille, and Mauss, I unearth the symbolic and cultural roots of sacrifice in the novel, concluding that Faulkner was deeply critical of any admixture of church and state. Faulkner depicts racial lynching as the sin of a society thirsty for vengeance, recklessly appropriating scraps of both religious sacrifice and secular justice, and hence unable to realize the peace-restoring aims of either tradition.