A ‘Book of Starres’ or ‘A Starred Text’? George Herbert Meets Roland Barthes
in Literature and Theology
September 2006; p ublished online June 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 6379 words.
A ‘book of starres’ or a ‘starred text’? This article examines the surprising parallels between the astrological depictions of Herbert's Bible and Barthes’ text. Reading for both is likened...
A ‘Fine, Mysterious, Almost Sacred Fable’? Retelling the Grail Quest in Mary Butts’ <i>Armed with Madness</i>
in Literature and Theology
September 2015; p ublished online July 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 11332 words.
This article scrutinises the critically overlooked interwar fiction of the British novelist Mary Franeis Butts (1890–1937). While textual scholars have canvassed her persistent flirtation...
A ‘Theological Cast of Mind’: Politics, Protestantism and the Poetic Imagination in the Poetry of Tom Paulin
in Literature and Theology
August 2002; p ublished online August 2002 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 0 words.
This article argues that the concerns and conflicts in the work of Tom Paulin can only be understood through an appeal to religious identity and tradition. It considers the legacies of...
‘A Double Face of False and True’: Poetry and Religion in Shelley
in Literature and Theology
March 2011; p ublished online January 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 6547 words.
In the wake of important readings by Robert M. Ryan and Geoffrey Hartman, among others, this essay examines Shelley’s poetic treatment of religion. It takes its title and cue from the...
<i>‘A God of Justice?’: The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black Literature</i>. By Qiana J. Whitted.
in Literature and Theology
June 2010; p ublished online March 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 1256 words.
A. M. Klein and Kabbalah
in Literature and Theology
June 2010; p ublished online May 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 5564 words.
A.M. Klein’s writings are imbued from beginning to end with allusions to the Bible and the Talmud and to Jewish liturgy and ritual. Moreover, during the most creative period of his career,...
‘A Passion for Passionlessness’: The Cappadocian Fathers and Iris Murdoch on <i>Apatheia</i> as a Spiritual Ideal
in Literature and Theology
March 2018; p ublished online February 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 7098 words.
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As the centenary of the birth of Iris Murdoch approaches, reappraisals of her literary work, which continues to divide critical opinion, seem due....
‘A Wisdom that is Woe’: Allusions to Ecclesiastes in <i>Moby-Dick</i>
in Literature and Theology
March 2013; p ublished online July 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 7491 words.
Herman Melville’s extensive biblical knowledge greatly influenced his writing, including his 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. This influence has been studied extensively, especially in regard to the...
ABORIGINAL SPIRITUALITY
in Literature and Theology
September 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 0 words.
ABRAHAM'S FAMILY IN CHILDREN OF GEBELAAWI
in Literature and Theology
June 1997; p ublished online June 1997 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literature; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. 0 words.
What vision of the ‘Abrahamic faiths’ best allows Jews, Christians and Muslims to discuss with each other their historically and theologically linked projects? The medieval ‘three rings’...
