Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory by Lynn R. Szabo, Jens Zimmermann, Holly Faith Nelson (Paperback, 2010)
Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experience and language, between body and spirit, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between the human and the divine. The twenty-five essays in Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory , written by international scholars working in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and history, address the ways in which literature and theory have engaged with these three concepts and related concerns. The contributors analyze literary and theoretical texts from the medieval period to the postmodern age, from the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to those of EndA' ShA saku, Alice Munro, Annie Dillard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Slavoj A iA3/4ek. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion and literature, philosophy and literature, aesthetic theory, and trauma studies.
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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN-13
9781554583058
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111665217
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Book Title
Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory
Author
Lynn R. Szabo, Jens Zimmermann, Holly Faith Nelson
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory, Christianity
Publication Year
2010
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
624g
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Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
Editor
Lynn R. Szabo, Holly Faith Nelson, Jens Zimmermann