Description: Further DetailsTitle: Figures of HeresyCondition: NewSubtitle: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000ISBN-10: 1845190262EAN: 9781845190262ISBN: 9781845190262Publisher: Liverpool University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/01/2005Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 152mmItem Length: 229mmItem Weight: 458gContributor: Andrew Dix (Edited by), Jonathan Taylor (Edited by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityDescription: God is dead,' Nietzsche famously declared in The Gay Science; but this book will investigate God's surprising persistence and resurrection in the works of even the most seemingly atheistic of writers, who continue to deploy Judaic and Christian narratives and tropes even as they radically rewrite them in the face of new cultural, political and scientific imperatives. Contributors explore the range, power and implication of Christian and Jewish heresies in canonical Anglo-American writers -- including Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, T S Eliot, John Steinbeck and Jim Crace -- as well as in some less familiar texts: the Mormon Scriptures of Joseph Smith and various Victorian rewritings of the Book of Esther. A polemical essay by Michelene Wandor reflects on conceptions of Jewishness, which she finds in need of heretical renewal. Valentine Cunningham's provocative introduction argues that the acts of literary writing and reading are necessarily heretical. A coda to the book, Between Heresy and Superstition', takes as its motto Thomas Huxley's observation in 1881 that It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.' Contributions offer readers a rare opportunity of witnessing an extended academic exchange -- exploring the process by which former heresies may indeed risk ossification as new kinds of doctrinal conformity. Bryan Cheyette's critique of the Christian Albums' of Bob Dylan is answered by Kevin Mills's essay which uncovers heretical possibility even in this most seemingly orthodox part of Dylan's work. The revitalisation of heresy in literary interpretations, as well as in our religious thinking, forms the guiding objective of this exciting critical book.Topic: Literary CriticismAuthor: No AuthorRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Figures of Heresy
Title: Figures of Heresy
Subtitle: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000
ISBN-10: 1845190262
EAN: 9781845190262
ISBN: 9781845190262
Release Date: 12/01/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Jonathan Taylor (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Figures of Heresy : Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Subject: American / General, Modern / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2005
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.3 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Author: Jonathan Taylor
Item Length: 6.2 in
Item Width: 8.6 in
Format: Hardcover
