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The End, Kevin Clark

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Mason & Dixon On The Line: A Reception Study, Douglas Keesey

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The Battle Rages On: The Psychomachia And The Faerie Queene, Book I, Aparajita Nanda

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The conception of Christian life as a pilgrimage towards God, a war against the forces of evil, has been reiterated right through the literature of late antiquity and the Middle Ages well into the Renaissance. This 'war' between Virtues and Vices, who fight for dominion over the Christian soul, possibly found its first poetic representation in Prudentius' Psychomachia. The action of this personification-allegory is fairly simple. The Christian Virtues led by Faith, despite certain initial reversals, ultimately triumph over the Vices in a series of combats and move on to build a holy city (in man's soul) in which will …

We Wretched Of The Earth: The Search For A Language Of Justice, John C. Hawley

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"In the beginning was the Word," writes John-God's revealing utterance that "was made flesh and lived among us." This incarnational character of the Word, this "living among us," has demanded of Christians in each age a reinterpretation of its original and ongoing meaning. If the protean nature of God's self-expression has seen a continuing "translation" in each age, though, it is becoming increasingly evident among church members that a similar task is also required in each ethnic milieu. The "us" among whom the Word lives is made up of many communities of discourse, and a logocentric theology like Christianity must …

The Price, Kevin Clark

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A Brief Note On Samuel Beckett’S ‘Brief Dream’, Jeanne M. Colleran

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Northrop Frye's Bible, Steven Marx

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"The Wife's Went Bazook" Comedic Feminism In The Poetry Of Ruth Stone, Kevin Clark

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Literature And The Evolution Of Religious Discourse: A Concluding Essay, John C. Hawley

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Religion and literature do not play identical roles in society, but they both rely heavily on imagination. This book has provided an examination of representative writings from both fields to demonstrate this fact, and to suggest points at which the differences between the two disciplines become less important. Viewed together, these examples. raise interesting questions regarding the viability of discussing enduring truths outside the realms of imagination. This paradox, in turn, points to the limitations of rationality · in the pursuit of such truths, and the inevitability of subjectivity in the quest for the objectively true.

These are important philosophical …

Mongo Beti And Jean Marc Éla: Literary And Christian Liberation In Cameroon, John C. Hawley

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In his fascinating study of contemporary African intellectuals and their struggle to set themselves apart from their European educations, K wame Anthony Appiah describes the intellectual ferment throughout the continent as producing "new, unpredictable fusions" because Africans "have the great advantage of having before [them] the European and American--and the Asian and Latin American--experiments with modernity to ponder as [they] make [their] choices" (134). Appiah uses the example of his own sister's wedding in Ghana to exemplify the hybridized role that religion continues to play in that self-definition. The ceremony followed the Methodist ritual; a Roman Catholic bishop offered the …

James Dickey's To The White Sea: A Critical Controversy, Douglas Keesey

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A Problem In Rhetoric: Teaching Writing With Western Culture, Steven Marx

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But rather than the large theoretical questions of canon revision that grabbed national headlines last year, I want to talk about a more mundane and limited question that I tried to deal with while teaching at Stanford between 1984 and June 1988. That question addresses one of the practical concerns of this conference on core curriculum: how does one effectively combine a course in English Composition with a course in Western Culture? The problem delegated to me was to work out a curriculum that would adapt the topics of English Comp to the readings and lectures-a curriculum for a course …

The Ideology Of Detection In Pynchon And Delillo, Douglas Keesey

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The Journey Between: Liminality And Dialogism In Mary White Rowlandson’S Captivity Narrative, Michelle Burnham

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In the introductory segment of her captivity narrative, before the story becomes structured into a series of "removes," Mary Rowlandson succinctly states her purpose: "that I may the better declare what happened to me during that grievous Captivity" (121). Throughout the succeeding twenty removes, this middle-aged Puritan woman-the wife of a minister and the daughter of the wealthiest original landowner in Lancaster, Massachusetts- records her experience during the eleven weeks and five days she spent as a captive among the New England Indians. Her narrative begins with the extraordinarily violent Indian attack on her home, a scene she describes with …

Gerard Manley Hopkins And The Christian Imagination, John C. Hawley

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The role of poets is to get their anchors caught in many such monasteries, to shimmy down the entangling ropes, and then to record the marvelous resistance that caused them to stop in the first place to notice. But those in the monastery, putting in their time, must not too quickly conclude that such accidental tourists, dropped from some ethereal realm, are likely to drown if we do not distance them from the world we consider mundane. In both situations, that of the sailor and that of the abbot, the question of how we envision reality, of what our shaping …

Robert Antoni’S Divina Trace And The Womb Of Place, John C. Hawley

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Loopholes Of Resistance: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative And The Critique Of Agency In Foucault, Michelle Burnham

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Located in the exact center of Harriet Jacobs' i86r slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Shve Girl, is a chapter entitled "The Loophole of Retreat. " The chapter's title refers to the tiny crawlspace above her grandmother's shed, where Jacobs hides for seven years in an effort to escape her master's persecution and the "peculiar institution" of slavery which authorizes that persecution. This chapter's central location, whether the result of accident or design, would seem to suggest its structural significance within Jacobs' narrative. Yet its central location is by no means obvious, for "The Loophole of Retreat" goes …

The Muscular Christian As Schoolmarm, John C. Hawley

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In 1859 the Saturday Review was one of the first journals to associate Charles Kingsley with a "younger generation of writers of fiction" who fostered the sentiment that "power of character in all its shapes goes with goodness." "Who does not know," the reviewer asked, "all about the 'short, crisp, black hair,' the 'pale but healthy complexion,' the 'iron muscles,' 'knotted sinews,' 'vast chests,' 'long and sinewy arms,' 'gigantic frames,' and other stock phrases of the same kind which always announce, in contemporary fiction, the advent of a model Christian hero?"1 After Kingsley's death in 187 5, however, Henry James …

Shakespeare's Pacifism, Steven Marx

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The Prophet Disarmed: Milton And The Quakers, Steven Marx

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The question of war or peace troubled sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe as much as it troubles our own time. Organized violence-the systematic infliction of irrevocable harm upon one group of human beings by another-was the activity by which the modern nation-state originated, defined itself, rose and fell. During those centuries, most Europeans affirmed, or at least accepted war as the final arbiter of what happened in history. But a significant minority, whether because of inner illumination, abstract reasoning, or the outcome of experience, disputed the primacy of war, maintaining that organized violence was intrinsically evil and that its purposed …

The Face Of Mr. Flip: Homophobia In The Horror Of Stephen King, Douglas Keesey

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Review: Learning To Read The Mother Tongue: On Sandra Gilbert's "Blood Pressure", Kevin Clark

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Charles Kingsley And Literary Theory Of The 1850’S, John C. Hawley

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In 1850 Thomas Carlyle advised Charles Kingsley to "pay no attention at all to the foolish clamour of reviewers, whether laudatory or condemnatory" (LK 1: 245).' Kingsley had just published his first two novels, Alton Locke and Yeast; he thanked Carlyle for the advice and assured him that he would welcome the "folios of 'articulate wind"' not as inducements to improve his style or as coercion to accept the increasingly demanding artistic norms for the novel, but as vindications of his efforts to touch "some really deep cancer" in society (LK 1 :267). By the end of the decade, however, …

Charles Kingsley And The Via Media, John C. Hawley

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With the recent centenary of Newman's death attention has again been paid, in passing, to his notorious opponent Charles Kingsley ( 1819- 7 5). 1 For the last century this has largely been the case: as Kingsley's most recent biographer has noted, "It was [his] misfortune to be the fly embedded in the clear amber of his antagonist's apology" (Chitty 237). Though for Roman Catholics the 1864 controversy that led to the Apologia pro vita sua still seems to be the most interesting aspect of Kingsley's career, its unfortunate polemics must not be allowed to cloud the larger role that …

Charles Kingsley And The Book Of Nature, John C. Hawley

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Stephen W. Sykes has written that theological "views are neither right nor wrong by being liberal in character. Only a church," he argues, "which has despaired of the possibility of rational argument about theology altogether could adopt such a stance."1 Yet Paul Avis has gone so far as to suggest that "Anglicanism enshrines a principle of reverent agnosticism. It takes seriously the limitations of our knowledge and readily confesses that our grasp of the truth is circumscribed by mystery, a light shining in the darkness."2 From the Cambridge Platonists and Jeremy Taylor, to Bishop Joseph Butler's Analogy of Religion, Natural …

Lo Fantástico Y La Historia: La Polémica Entre La Sombra Del Caudillo Y Tirano Banderas, Juan Velasco

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Sobre Ia base del debate que asento Martin Luis Guzman a raiz del articulo "Tirano Banderas", publicado en "La Opinion" de Los Angeles el 17 de marzo de 1927, se dejan planteadas una serie de preguntas que cuestionan el uso del discurso fantastico en Ia representacion de Ia historia Iatinoamericana. La polemica sobre Ia ideologia de Ia forma tiene un especial relieve en tanto que viene a sumarse a Ia de Ia siempre compleja relacion cultural entre Europa y America. En este trabajo me propongo explorar cuales son los criterios determinantes de esta problematica geograficoideologica y sus consecuencias esteticas.

John Ashbery's "A Wave": Privileging The Symbol, Kevin Clark

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Vineland In The Mainstream Press: A Reception Study, Pynchon Notes, Douglas Keesey

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"Dark Lady And Fair Man": The Love Triangle In Shakespeare's Sonnets And Ulysses, Michelle Burnham

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The article discusses the novel "Ulysses" by the Irish author James Joyce, and argues that he used sonnets by the dramatist and poet William Shakespeare suggesting love triangles between the poet, a dark lady, and a young man as a model for the love triangle between the characters Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Blazes Boylan. Joyce's interest in adultery as a literary theme is also touched on.

The Politics Of Doubling In "Mortality And Mercy In Vienna", Douglas Keesey

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