Raymond-Jean Frontain

Jan Wojcik

A collection of essays demonstrating that both biblical literature and many of the writers of later eras who used biblical themes were guided by more complex and subtle understanding of female identity and reality than the patriarchal traditions that formed the cultural context in which the biblical texts were first compiled and read. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Old Testament Women in Western Literature

John T. Shawcross

Frances M. Malpezzi

Donne's religious life ... - and the imaginative works that his religion inspired - are among the most troublesome sets of paradoxes and problems to emerge from the English Renaissance. Donne was born into one of the most visible and influential of Catholic families, yet he concluded his life as one of the most visible and influential spokesmen for the Anglican compromise. The author of poems of extraordinary interiority and of prose meditations that betray a pained self-scrutiny, Donne was fascinated by the conversion experiences of Saints Paul and Augustine, but, paradoxically, he left little conclusive evidence by which the modern reader or biographer may chart his spiritual progress. He has, alternately, been accused of guilt-ridden recusancy, condemned for gross political expediency, and lauded for maintaining an extraordinary integrity in a religiously volatile age. Every scholar who believes he has defined Donne's religious life is, ultimately, undone: there is always more.

Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross

John Donne's Religious Imagination

Basudeb Chakraborti

Critical Essays on R. K. Narayan

A Talent for the Particular

This second edition explores the territory between gay - lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. The book examines the appropriation and/or subversion of the authority of the Judeo-Christian Bible by gay and lesbian writers. Texts being focused on are 'Paradise Regained' (Milton), 'Sodom' (Rochester), 'The Life to Come' (Forster), 'The Well of Loneliness' (Radclyffe Hall), 'Desert of the Heart' (Radclyffe Hall), 'Oranges are Not the Only Fruit' (Winterson), and 'Corpus Cristi' (McNally) among others.

The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Literature

Reclaiming the Sacred

Raymond-Jean Frontain, Ph.D.

In this collection of twelve essays, the editors attempt to define the poet as prophet in Western literature and to select the general attributes of prophetic writing. The essays focus, in the main, on the prophetic tradition in the English-speaking world, as well as on a sufficient number of writers outside that tradition, to prove that all prophetic writing shares common features.

Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature

Surveying the entirety of McNally’s works, including the most important of McNally’s still unpublished works, this book positions McNally at the forefront of contemporary American writers—in particular, gay writers—treating the issues of suffering, loss, spiritual renewal, and forgiveness.

Something about Grace

The Theater of Terrence McNally

This collection of eleven original essays each by a different scholar outlines the rich body of imaginative and devotional literature which has the biblical poet-warrior-king as its subject or primary focus, showing David to have as strong an imaginative appeal for Western writers as such better-known mythic heroes as Orpheus, Oedipus, Samson, and Ulysses. The introduction to the volume surveys the development of the David myth particularly in British and American literature. The essays represent a variety of critical approaches to the myth as literature, treating in detail such works as Shakespeare's Hamlet, Cowley's Davideis, Christopher Smart's A Song to David, and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and examining the complex uses made of David in the Midrash, Talmud, and Patristic writings; medieval sermons and Reformation devotional treatises; and American Puritan sermons.

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