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Title Theology and literature : rethinking reader responsibility / edited by Gaye Williams Ortiz and Clara A.B. Joseph
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
Contents On reader responsibility : an introduction / Clara A.B. Joseph and Gaye Williams Ortiz -- Some dilemmas of an ethics of literature / Liesbeth Korthals Altes -- Only irresponsible people would go into the desert for forty days / David Jasper -- The ethics of biblical interpretation / Robert J. Hurley -- Samuel Beckett's use of the Bible and the responsibility of the reader / Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou -- On trial / Lewis Owens -- Bible and ethics / Johannes Nissen -- The playwright, the novelist, and the comedian / Dirk Visser -- Dialogue in Gandhi's Hind swaraj, or, Indian home rule, or the reader as truth-seeker / Clara A.B. Joseph -- Responsibly performing vulnerability / Erik Borgman -- The Indian character of modern Hindi drama / Diana Dimitrova -- Film and apocryphal imitation of the feminine / Elizabeth Philpot -- Revolting fantasies / Alison Jasper -- Literature as resistance / Dirk De Schutter
Summary This collection of new essays by academics from different parts of the world brings refreshing and provocative responses to prominent literary theories, especially theories of the reading process and of reader-response. This edition is significant in three ways: for its encounter with world religions and literatures; its explicit literary cum theological discourse; and its strong focus on the ethics of reading and representation. It boasts an impressive multidisciplinary array of reader-response theories that straddle theological, cultural, and literary boundaries. The essays showcase a combination of theory and hands-on application on literary and cultural texts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Religion and literature.
Religion in literature.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts.
Religion and literature
Religion in literature
Bellettrie.
Theologie.
Verbeelding.
Ethische aspecten.
Form Electronic book
Author Ortiz, Gaye Williams
Joseph, Clara A. B
ISBN 9781403982995
1403982996
1403971986
9781403971982