| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 450 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Trauma and transcendence: an introduction / Holly Faith Nelson -- Sacred proposals and the spiritual subliem / David Lyle Jeffrey -- "Loke in: how weet a wounde in heere!": 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 -- Listening to Lavinia: Emmanual Levina's sayind and said in Titus Andronicus / Sean Lawrence -- Precious stories: the discursive economy in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece / Heather G.S. Johnson -- Sacred pain of penitence: the theology of John Donne's Holy Sonnets / David Anoby -- Bearing the cross: the Christian's response to suffering in Herbert's The Temple / Daniel W. Doerksen -- Horrific suffering, sacred terror, and sublime freedom in Helen Maria William's Peru / Natasha Duquette -- Joanna Baillie and the Christian Gothic: reforming society through the sublime / Christine A. Colón -- Sacramental suffering from the waters of redemption and transormation in George Eliot's fiction / Constance M. Fulner -- Christina Rossetti and the poetics of Tractarian suffering / Esther T. Hu -- Suffering in world and truth: seventeeth- and nineteenth-century Quaker women's autobiography / Robynne Rogers Healey -- Sacramental imagination: Eucharists of the ordinary universe in the works of Joyce, Proust and Wolof / Richard Kearney -- Via Negativa in Forster's A passage to India / George Piggford -- 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 B. Hilder -- Messiah of history: the search of synchronicity in Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz / Deanna T. Smid -- Suffering and the sacred: Hugh Hood's The new age/Le nouveau siècle / Barbara Pell -- Fictional violations in Alice Munro's narratives / John C. Van Rys -- 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 C. Bowen -- Passion plays by proxy: the Paschal face as interculturality in the works of Endō Shūsaku and Mishima Yukio / Sean Somers -- 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 hermenutics / Jens Zimmermann. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy. |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval. |
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Suffering in literature.
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Suffering in literature. |
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Holy, The, in literature.
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Holy, The, in literature. |
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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Sublime, The, in literature. |
| Indexed Term |
"Multi-User" |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nelson, Holly Faith, 1966-
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Zimmermann, Jens, 1965-
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Szabo, Lynn.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Through a glass darkly. [Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2010 9781554581849 (OCoLC)499416740 |
| ISBN |
9781554582914 (electronic book) |
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1554582911 (electronic book) |
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9781554582068 (electronic book) |
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1554582067 (electronic book) |
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1282764896 |
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9781282764897 |
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1554581842 (cloth) |
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9781554581849 (cloth) |
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9781554583058 (paperback) |
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1554583055 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612764899 |
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