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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 Endô Shûsaku, Alice Munro, Annie Dillard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Slavoj Žižek. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion and literature, philosophy and literature, aesthetic theory, and trauma studies.
Contents
Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory, edited by Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Trauma and Transcendence: An Introduction Holly Faith Nelson
The Classical and Biblical Inheritance
Sacred Proposals and the Spiritual Sublime David Lyle Jeffrey
Medieval Visions and Dreams
""Loke in: How weet a wounde is here!"": The Wounds of Christ as a Sacred Space in English Devotional Literature Eleanor McCullough
Suffering in the Service of Venus: The Sacred, the Sublime, and Chaucerian Joy in the Middle Part of the Parliament of Fowls Norm Klassen
Shakespearean Horror
Listening to Lavinia: Emmanuel Levinas's Saying and Said in Titus Andronicus Sean Lawrence
Precious Stories: The Discursive Economy in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece Heather G.S. Johnson
Metaphysical Afflictions
The Sacred Pain of Penitence: The Theology of John Donne's Holy Sonnets David Anonby
Bearing the Cross: The Christian's Response to Suffering in Herbert's The Temple Daniel W. Doerksen
The Ethical Romantic Sublime
Horrific Suffering, Sacred Terror, and Sublime Freedom in Helen Maria Williams's Peru Natasha Duquette
Joanna Baillie and the Christian Gothic: Reforming Society through the Sublime Christine A. Colón
Suffering and Sacrament in the Nineteenth Century
Sacramental Suffering and the Waters of Redemption and Transformation in George Eliot's Fiction Constance M. Fulmer
Christina Rossetti and the Poetics of Tractarian Suffering Esther T. Hu
Suffering in Word and in Truth: Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century Quaker Women's Autobiography Robynne Rogers Healey
Sacred Modernism(s)
Sacramental Imagination: Eucharists of the Ordinary Universe in the Works of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf Richard Kearney
The Via Negativa in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India George Piggford
The Fellowship of Suffering and Hope in Fantasy Literature
Consolation in Un/certainty: The Sacred Spaces of Suffering in the Children's Fantasy Literature of George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle Monika Hilder
The Messiah of History: The Search for Synchronicity in Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz Deanna T. Smid
Violation and Redemption in Canadian Fiction
Suffering and the Sacred: Hugh Hood's The New Age / Le nouveau siécle Barbara Pell
Fictional Violations in Alice Munro's Narratives John C. Van Rys
The American Sublime
Thomas Merton and the Aesthetics of the Sublime: A Beautiful Terror Lynn R. Szabo
Belated Beloved: Time, Trauma, and the Sublime in Toni Morrison's Beloved Steve Vine
Annie Dillard on Holy Ground: The Artist as Nun in the Postmodern Sublime Deborah Bowen
Japanese (Re)Visioning of the Suffering Christ
Passion Plays by Proxy: The Paschal Face as Interculturality in Endô Shûsaku and Mishima Yukio Sean Somers
Postmodern Aesthetics and Beyond
Testifying to the Infinity of the Other: The Sacred and Ethical Dimensions of Secondary Witnessing in Anne Karpf's The War After Bettina Stumm
Sacred Space and the Fellowship of Suffering in the Postmodern Sublime Richard J. Lane
Suffering Divine Things: Cruciform Reasoning or Incarnational Hermeneutics Jens Zimmermann
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
