Steven Carter

Devotions to the Text

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In an era when many scholars and critics can't seem to see the forest of literature for the trees of theory, objective readings of texts are few and far between. Devotions to the Text constitutes a bold act of rebellion against those who would transform texts into mirrors that reflect only their own ideas and/or ideologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 225g
• ISBN-13: 9780761827573
• ISBN-10: 0761827579
• Artikelnr.: 21372998

Autorenporträt

Dr. Stephen Carter is the author of several books and Bible studies; he also leads a LifeLight Bible study at Concordia Lutheran Church in Kirkwood, Missouri. He was a seminary professor and served at Concordia Publishing House as vice president of editorial services, and then as president. Dr. Carter's passion is to help adults grow in the Word of Christ for a life of connecting people to Jesus.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword by Edwin J. Barton Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3
Introduction Chapter 4 From Room to Room: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and
the Pendulum" Chapter 5 The Two Tarns: Poe's "The Fall of the House of
Usher" and Chapter II of Henry David Thoreau's Walden Chapter 6 The Reader
Erect: Poe's "The Premature Burial" Chapter 7 The First Hero of Relativism:
Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware Chapter 8 "Can't You See One
Pace Before You?:" Franz Kafka's The Trial and Charles Baudelaire's Paris
Spleen Chapter 9 "You Better Have another Piece:" Ernest Hemingway's "Ten
Indians" and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Chapter 10
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Alive: Hemingway's "The Killers" Chapter
11 Interlude: ABC of Thinking Chapter 12 Estragon's Ancient Wound: Samuel
Beckett's Waiting for Godot Chapter 13 "George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad:"
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chapter 14 "Plants Were Like
People:" Jerzy Kosinski's Being There Chapter 15 Twice Upon a Mattress:
Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 16 Jack Gladney's Smoking
Gun: Don DeLillo's White Noise Chapter 17 Flare to White: Joel and Ethan
Coen's Fargo and the Postmodern Turn

Rezensionen

In his many years in the classroom and as one of our most astute literary scholars and cultural critics, Carter has been witness to the shifts in the field of literary studies, yet has remained unwavering in his commitment to close, textual readings and careful analysis. With this book, he hopes that students and scholars will once again recognize the importance of devotion to the text...[and he] clearly demonstrates why formalism remains a relevant and necessary component of critical literary study. -- Therese A. Paetschow, California State University Bridges