By Heather Walton, Andrew W. Hass
ISBN-10: 1841270180
ISBN-13: 9781841270180
This selection of essays explores the best way our notions of self, different, subjectivity, gender and the sacred textual content are being re-visioned inside modern conception. those new methods of conceiving create upheavals and radical shifts that remodel our figuring out of philosophical, mental, political, sexual and religious identification, permitting us to track the fault traces, regulatory forces, exclusions and unmarked areas either inside of our selves, and in the discourses that attend those selves. As such, revisionings holiday down borders, and the come across of literature and theology turns into a very important concentration for those explorations, because the self learns to resituate its personal being creatively vis-a-vis others and, finally, the Other.
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Corresponding to the ecstasy experienced by the starving saint on the desert' (Journals, pp. 76-77). 00 check from Harpers for three poems, '[signifying', in Plath's own words, her '[f]irst real professional acceptance, God, and all the possibilities' (Journals, p. 77). That acceptance letter from Harpers marks not only her entry into the public, literary arena of the 'godeyed ones' but also her entry into the Bible: this appropriation and revision of Eve as a prophetic figure of her own authorial identity anticipates her later raids on the Bible for writing personae.
4. Auden, Prolific, p. 3. 5 This apparently blatant anthropomorphism of the Divine, or conversely, divinization of human imagination, serves only to outline in bold the creative acting spirit, which, in always creating in its own image, cannot help but create the contrarieties existent within itself, contrarieties that, in Blake's understanding of things, are necessary for any progression. As much as imagination and reason stand opposed to one another in any one being, so do the prolific and the devourer, so too Heaven and Hell, and so too, ultimately, the human and the divine.
W1LCOX: REMEMBER ME! 31 4. There is an important sense in which memory in the context of devotion is mutual. If the aim of the individual is to be remembered, then this can just as well be achieved, Donne suggests, by remembering God. In his description of memory in a 'Sermon of Valediction', Donne shows it as a two-way process: [Memory is] the Gallery of the soul, hang'd with so many, and so lively pictures of the goodness and mercies of thy God to thee... And as a well made, and well plac'd picture, looks always upon him that looks upon it; so shall thy God look upon thee, whose memory is thus contemplating him, and shine upon thine understanding, and rectifie thy will too.
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