Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation (eBook, ePUB)

Thresholds of Wonder: The Power of the Word IV
Redaktion: Knox, Francesca Bugliani; Reek, Jennifer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a collection of essays that explains how literature, philosophy and theology have explored the role of wonder in our lives, particularly through poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351796019
• Artikelnr.: 57405109

Autorenporträt

Francesca Bugliani Knox is Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL and Research Fellow at Roehampton University, both in the UK. Her publications include translations into Italian as well as several books and articles on various aspects of English and Italian literature from the Renaissance to the present, including The Eye of the Eagle: John Donne and the Legacy of Ignatius Loyola (2011). She is the editor, with David Lonsdale, of Poetry and the Religious Imagination (2015) and, with John Took, of Poetry and Prayer (2016). She is also the editor of Ronald Knox. A Man for All Seasons (2017). Jennifer Reek has a PhD from the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow, UK. Her work has appeared in journals such as Literature and Theology and Contemporary Women's Writing. She is the author of A Poetics of Church: Reading and Writing Sacred Spaces of Poetic Dwelling (2017). Currently, she teaches seminars in Great Books in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why Wonder? Francesca Bugliani Knox Part I: Philosophical Perspectives; 'In the Valley of the Lot'
Hilary Davies 1 The Wonder of Not Wondering: from Plato to Lucretius
Guido Milanese 2 Wonder and the Philosopher's Perfection: Giordano Bruno
Dilwyn Knox 3 Wonder
Epiphany
Haecceity in Gerard Manley Hopkins
Richard Kearney 4 Wonder in Ethics and Aesthetics: Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore
Priyambada Sarkar 5 A Mysticism of a Dead Leaf: A Brief Apology for an Ordinary Phenomenon
Philippe Nouzille Part II: Theological Perspectives; 'The Litany'
Dana Gioia 6 The Extraordinary of the Ordinary: G.K. Chesterton
Imagination and the Wonder of a Natural Theology
Brett H. Speakman 7 Between Rapture and Rupture: An Exploration of Wonder
Bernard Sawicki OSB 8 Between the Poet and the Legislator: On Wonder and Ambivalence in Midrash and Hebrew Poetry
Ariel Zinder 9 Scandalous Wonder: Contemplating the Cross with Isaac Watts
Jean Ward 10 This World of Wonders: Theology
Poetics and Everyday Life
Heather Walton Part III: Literary Perspectives; 'Creed'
Jay Parini 11 Wonder and the Power of the Word
Piero Boitani 12 Wonder and the Radical Vision of Francis of Assisi
Jon M. Sweeney 13 Rilke's Poetics of Wonder: Looking at the Picture-Books of Beauty in the Duino Elegies
Emilia Di Rocco 14 Poetry
Radicalism and Wonder: Peter Levi
Priesthood
and David Jones
Robert Fraser 15 'The flowers remember / the sugar bowl remembers': Quotidian Wonder and the Painter/Poet Joanna Margaret Paul
Joanna Osborne Afterword; 'A Space for God'
Elena Buia Rutt 16 'Learn from wonder
nurture astonishment': Notes on Bergoglio's Aesthetics
Antonio Spadaro SJ and Francesca Bugliani Knox