Recently added articles from Christianity and Literature:
From the editor.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In this issue, we are pleased to publish four essays that focus on the relation between women, faith, and writing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, France, and America. The essays focus on poetry and fiction and explore the themes of transgression, incarnation, spirituality, ...
Son of the Prodigal Speaks.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Son of the Prodigal Speaks My mother married the rich man'sSecond son. She said he had traveled.He knew things other men didn't,Like the meaning of forgiveness,The cost of infidelity. I spent my childhood privileged,Happy, complaining, ...
"Mine earthly heart should dare": Elizabeth Barrett's devotional poetry.
Mar 22, 2009; ... And I--ah! what am I To counterfeit, with faculty earth-darkened, Seraphic brows of light And seraph language never used nor hearkened? --Elizabeth Barrett, "Epilogue" to "The Seraphim" We give many classifying names to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems, but ...
Nativity in Black and White.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Nativity in Black and White At St. Xenia'sWildwood sketesix black-garbed nuns--black boots, black gloves--wend their way toprayers at dusk,in sinuous single file, downhill,through trenches shoveledin knee-deep snow.From giant ...
Faith.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Faith Here it is steadyingthe heart, taking the air,pedaling to the farmers' market for sweet grapetomatoes. In anotherdecade those calves will be corded with muscle,...
Therese of Lisieux and Alphonse de Lamartine: the spiritual transformation of Romanticism.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... There has been some controversy since the death of Therese of Lisieux (Therese Martin) regarding the value of her poetry. Some critics have considered it to be somewhat charming but full of the pious sentimental images typical of her day. Sackville-West, for example, declares that "It ...
Starlings.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Starlings Starling--how odd the name--these little birds of blackness,laced with iridescence,thin vestige of the ...
The law of sex and death: religious language and practice in Edith Wharton's summer.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Edith Wharton's novella Summer is many things: a coming-of-age story, a story about social class, a story of young love and abandonment, and finally, a story about sex. Its young heroine, Charity Royall, was, as a child, rescued by her guardian from the desperately poor mountain community ...
Canaan Valley, October.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Canaan Valley, October We've come to expect it from trees, but hereeven the ground blazes, packed deep with leaf foilred as red gold. At every turn in the roadwe're jolted by another roar of color--whole hillsidesbelting out the flush the sun has invested ...
Incarnation, inwardness, and imagination: George Eliot's early fiction.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past: no wonder the secret escapes the unsympathising observer, who might as well put on spectacles to discern odours. --George Eliot, Adam Bede Is there not a spiritual ...
The Buildings of Languedoc, France.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> The Buildings of Languedoc, France The buildings of Languedoc--tell about them. Tellwhat words rose up like shards from the narrow streets.Tell what the layers of centuries have done and howthe adjectives multiplied in the little towns of my mind--cobbled, ...
Further thoughts on a prodigal son who cannot come home, on loneliness and grace: an interview with Marilynne Robinson.(SPECIAL FEATURE)(the novels 'Home' and 'Gilead')(Interview)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RMP: Was there a significant personal memory from your childhood or youth that shaped your world view as a writer? Did it shift the lines of your reasoning in a substantial way? MR: I can only assume that my childhood influenced my world view. ...
2008 Conference on Christianity and Literature Awards.(SPECIAL FEATURE)(Conference news)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Each year the Conference on Christianity and Literature recognizes literary achievement in the form of awards presented for lifetime achievement, best book in the field, and the Lionel Basney Award for best article published in Christianity and Literature. The winners of the 2008 awards ...
In praise of John Updike (1932-2009).(In memoriam)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When we praise someone in their presence, there is always the suspicion that we are trying to win their favor or influence their reception by others. This is especially true when we try to honor those who are already copiously acclaimed. Fortunately, in ...
Your Speed.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Your Speed is much too fast. Hey now,the device implies, friendly-like,it's time to think about the forces that propel you. The signprovides a thoughtful report,a welcome assessment. You appreciate its neutrality--no cost to you, no ...
Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory. By Logan E. Whalen. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8132-1509-9. Pp. xii + 208. $59.95. This slim book is best appreciated as an act of homage to two writers who happen to be women. Logan E ....
The Road to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Travel in the Age of Discovery.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Road to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Travel in the Age of Discovery. By F. Thomas Noonan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press in Association with the Library of Congress, 2007. ISBN-13:978-0-8122-3994-2. Pp. 344 + 38 illus. $49.95. Love's Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey ...
Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice. By Janet Adelman. University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-226-00681-9. Pp. xii + 224 p. $35.00. In Blood Relations, Janet Adelman boldly illustrates the problematic Jewish spectacle in Merchant of Venice, one ...
John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism. By Walter S. H. Lim. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006. ISBN 0-97413-940-6. Pp. 305. $55.00. Critical interest in Milton's republicanism has until recently focused on neo-Roman and revolutionary secularism ....
Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century. By Jarlath Kelleen. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. ISBN: 9-781851-829439. Pp. vii + 240. $65. The flowering of nineteenth-century Gothic literature in English is conspicuously marked by ...