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xxvii, 450 : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Trauma and transcendence : an introduction -- The classical and Biblical inheritance. Sacred proposals and the spiritual sublime / David Lyle Jeffrey -- Medieval visions and dreams. "Loke in : how weet a wounde is heere!" : the wounds of Christ is a sacred space in English devotional literature / Eleanor McCullough ; Suffering in the service of Venus : the sacred, the sublime, and Chaucerian joy in the middle part of the Parliament of Fowls / Norm Klassen -- Shakespearean horror. Listening to Lavinia : Emmanuel Levinas's saying and said in Titus Andronicus / Sean Lawrence ; Precious stories : the discursive economy in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece / Heather G.S. Johnson -- Metaphysical afflictions. The sacred pain of penitence : the theology of John Donne's Holy sonnets / David Anonby ; Bearing the cross : the Christian's response to suffering in Herbert's The temple / Daniel W. Doerksen -- The ethical romantic sublime. Horrific suffering, sacred terror, and sublime freedom in Helen Maria Williams's Peru / Natasha Duquette ; Joanna Baillie and the Christian gothic : reforming society through the sublime / Christine A. Colón -- Suffering and sacrement in the nineteenth century. Sacremental suffering and the waters of redemption and transformation in George Eliot's fiction / Constance M. Fulmer ; Christina Rossetti and the poetics of tractarian suffering / Esther T. Hu -- Suffering in word and in truth : seventeenth- and nineteenth century Quaker women's autobiography / Robynne Rogers Healey -- Sacred Modernism(s). Sacramental imagination : eucharists of the ordinary universe in the works of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf / Richard Kearney ; The Via Negativa in Forster's A passage to India / George Piggford -- The fellowship of suffering and hope in fantasy literature. Consolation in Un/certainty : the sacred spaces of suffering in the children's fantasy literature of George Macdonald, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle / Monika B. Hilder ; The messiah of history : the search of synchronicity in Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz / Deanna T. Smid -- Violation and redemption in Canadien fiction. Suffering and the sacred : Hugh Hood's The new age/Le nouveau siècle / Barbara Pell ; Fictional violations in Alice Munro's narratives / John C. Van Rys -- The American sublime. Thomas Merton and the aesthetics of the sublime : "a beautiful terror" / Lynn R. Szabo ; Belated beloved : time, trauma, and the sublime in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Steve Vine ; Annie Dillard on holy ground : the artist as nun in the postmodern sublime / Deborah C. Bowen -- Japanese (re)visioning of the suffering Christ. Passion plays by proxy : the Paschal face as interculturality in the works of Endō Shūsaku and Mishima Yukio / Sean Somers -- Postmodern aesthetics and beyond. Testifying to the infinity of the Other : the sacred and ethical dimensions of secondary witnessing in Anne Karpf's The war after / Bettina Stumm ; Sacred space and the fellowship of suffering in the postmodern sublime / Richard J. Lane ; Suffering divine things : cruciform reasoning or incarnational hermenutics / Jens Zimmermann |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Literature -- Philosophy.
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Suffering in literature.
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Holy, The, in literature.
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Nelson, Holly Faith, 1966-
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Szabo, Lynn.
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Zimmermann, Jens, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9781554582914 (e-book) |
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9781554583058 |
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9781554581849 |
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1554581842 |
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