Transforming Holiness: Representations of Holiness in English and American Literary TextsIrene Visser, Helen Wilcox Peeters Publishers, 2006 - 217 páginas This fascinating collection of essays addresses the question of how holiness has been represented in English and American literary texts from early saints' lives to the poetry of the mid-twentieth century. The interaction of spiritual ideals with the creative and often worldly imagination is examined in the work of writers as varied as George Herbert, Harriet Beecher Stowe and D.H. Lawrence. The range of genres discussed includes not only devotional poetry and apparently secular prose fiction, but also political ballads, personal conduct books and congregational psalms and hymns. Holiness is set in relation to vital issues such as creativity, gender, Romanticism, translation and visual culture. Together the essays reveal the full meaning of the title of the collection: that holiness, a transforming force, has transformed itself radically as a concept over the centuries, and undergoes dynamic transformation through its expression in literature. |
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Translating Holiness The Holiness of Translation | 21 |
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The Failure of Holiness | 41 |
Politics of Holiness Royalty for the Masses in The Wandring Jews | 61 |
The Presentation of Holiness and the Concept of Christian Perfection | 81 |
Religious Language in English and German | 95 |
Holiness Gender and Education in Conduct | 111 |
Of Women Slaves and Cannibals Dynamics of Holiness | 127 |
Intimations of Bodily Holiness in Selected Poems | 147 |
Holiness in the Modern World Durkheim Otto Bataille | 161 |
Dismantling the Virgin Modernism and the Sacred Feminine | 181 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abstract Expressionism argue ballad Bataille beauty become Bible body books for young broadside ballad Caspar David Friedrich Charles Wesley Christ Christian Perfection Coleridge concept of holiness conduct book conduct literature Coverdale Crowley cultural D.H. Lawrence death depiction divine doctrine domestic Dutch early modern English essay example expression faith female Friedrich genre George God's grace heart heaven Herbert's Hölderlin human hymn Ibidem idea of holiness John King Lady Chatterley's Lover language Lawrence living lyric poetry metaphor Methodist metrical psalms Middle English Milton's monarch nation nature painting Parker poem poet poetic political popular present Psalter Queen readers references reign religion religious Rochester's royal sacred feminine Saint Barbara sanctifying scripture secular sense sermon seventeenth century sexual soul spiritual stanza suggests thee theology thou tion traditional Trinitie Sunday verse virgin virtue Wandring Jew's Chronicle Wesley's Whitman William woman Women in Love words young adult