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Theology and literature

rethinking reader responsibility

edited byWilliams Ortiz GayeClara A B Joseph

Abstract

By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories.

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On trial

Mikhail Bakhtin and Abram Tertz's address to "God"

Lewis Owens

pp.73-80

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982995_6
Bible and ethics

moral formation and analogical imagination

Johannes Nissen

pp.81-100

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982995_7
Responsibly performing vulnerability

Salman Rushdie's Fury and Edgar Laurence Doctorow's City of god

Erik Borgman

pp.147-172

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982995_10
The "Indian" character of modern hindi drama

neo-sanskritic, pro-Western naturalistic, or nativistic dramas?

Diana Dimitrova

pp.173-183

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982995_11
Revolting fantasies

reviewing the cinematic image as fruitful ground for creative, theological interpretations in the company of Julia Kristeva

Alison Jasper

pp.199-214

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982995_13

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2006

Pages: 240

DOI: 10.1057/9781403982995

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-53334-3

ISBN (digital): 978-1-4039-8299-5

Full citation:

Ortiz Gaye Williams, Joseph Clara A B (2006) Theology and literature: rethinking reader responsibility. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.