Towards A Christian Literary Theory

Author : L. Ferretter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230006256
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Christian Literary Theory written by L. Ferretter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most modern literary theory is explicitly anti-theological. This book states the case for a contemporary literary theory whose principles derive from Christian theology. Ferretter argues that it remains rationally and ethically legitimate to use theological language in literary theory despite the objections to such a theory posed by deconstruction, Marxism and psychoanalysis. He concludes with an assessment of how such a theory can be formulated and used in contemporary cultural analysis.

Author : David Barratt
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discerning Reader written by David Barratt and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clarence Walhout
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783779768
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Literary Theory written by Clarence Walhout and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clarence Walhout
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Literary Theory written by Clarence Walhout and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a variety of Christian scholars, this collection of essays examines formalist, archetypal, ethical, Marxist, psychological, feminist, and other critical approaches to contemporary literary theory. Bibliographies supplement all of the essays.

Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802841773
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People of the Book written by David Lyle Jeffrey and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the "cultural and literary identity among Western Christians which the centrality of 'the Book' has helped to create, and the Christian use of the phrase 'People of the book.'"--Preface.

Author : Robin Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354333
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vénus Noire written by Robin Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Author : Cassandra Falke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294685
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory written by Cassandra Falke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the historical and thematic intersections of Christianity and critical theory, this collection brings together a diversity of specialist scholars in the area. Building on recent discourses in theology as well as their knowledge of hermeneutic and critical traditions, they examine major themes in contemporary critical theory.

Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830868407
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Literature written by David Lyle Jeffrey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature?" ask David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet in this insightful survey. First and foremost, they reply, many of the world's best authors of literature in English were formed--for better or worse--by the Christian tradition. Then too, many of the most recognized aesthetic literary forms derive from biblical exemplars. And finally, many great works of literature demand of readers evaluative judgments of the good, the true and the beautiful that can only rightly be understood within a Christian worldview. In this book Jeffrey and Maillet offer a feast of theoretical and practical discernment. After an examination of literature and truth, theological aesthetics, and the literary character of the Bible, they turn to a brief survey of literature from medieval times to the present, highlighting distinctively Christian themes and judgments. In a concluding chapter they suggest a path for budding literary critics through the current state of literary studies. Here is a must-read for all who are interested in a Christian perspective on literary studies.

Author : Michal Beth Dinkler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300249470
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Theory and the New Testament written by Michal Beth Dinkler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive case for a fresh literary approach to the New Testament For at least a half century, scholars have been adopting literary approaches to the New Testament inspired by certain branches of literary criticism and theory. In this important and illuminating work, Michal Beth Dinkler uses contemporary literary theory to enhance our understanding and interpretation of the New Testament texts. Dinkler provides an integrated approach to the relation between literary theory and biblical interpretation, employing a wide range of practical theories and methods. This indispensable work engages foundational concepts and figures, the historical contexts of various theoretical approaches, and ongoing literary scholarship into the twenty-first century. In Literary Theory and the New Testament, Dinkler assesses previous literary treatments of the New Testament and calls for a new phase of nuanced thinking about New Testament texts as both ancient and literary.

Author : Sandra Percy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781743241103
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature, Literary Theory and Literary Criticism written by Sandra Percy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Literary studies have traditionally included the history of Literature and the analysis of particular literary texts. Over recent years this has been changing, and both Literary Theory and Literary Criticism have become central to literary studies. Literature, Literary Theory and Literary Criticism: a History from a Christian Perspective emphasises the importance of historical events and people to the writing, the reading, and the analysis of literary texts throughout the ages. The disciplines of Literature, Literary Theory and Literary Criticism from a Christian perspective rest on the foundational concept that the Triune God is God the Creator who made all things, including humankind whom He created in His own Image. 'Creation' is therefore an essential component of being human. The literary works we produce, the literary theories we hold, and the literary criticism we apply to written texts are gifts from God."--Back cover.