Theological and Philosophical Explorations of the Call of Literature : Power of the Word VI (Hardcover)

Introduction??PART I: The?Prophetic?and the Religious Calling??1. John Henry Newman, Poetry and the?Grammar of Assent??2. The Call of Poetry? 3. Calling,?Kairos, Kerygma: The Example of William Blake? 4. 'It calls the calling ‘manly’: Some Thoughts on Gerard Manley Hopkins and Vocation? 5. R. S. Thomas - Priest and/or Poet??PART II: Literary and Spiritual Journeys??6. Flannery O’ Connor:?The Road?to the Province of Joy? 7. Goethe’s?Roman Holiday: A Meeting and Mingling of Self and World? 8. Detective Fiction and the Human Search for Meaning? 9. Le compte a rebours: Michel Houellebecq,?Soumission, and the Literature of Spiritual Exhaustion??PART III: Deepening the Call: Encounters Between Literature, Philosophy and Theology??10. Why Not Flowers? A Writer in the Garden and a Call of Literature: Some Thoughts Dedicated to Sandor Marai? 11. The Unvoiced Fundamental Note: Atheistic Literature and Divine Resonances? 12. 'Not with clever speech': Tesich's?Karoo: Literary Insights on Postmodernity? 13. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poetic Calls: The Performance of the Word? 14. Hermeneutics and Resurrection: Re-reading Virgil in Dante’s?Purgatorio?21-22??PART IV: Responding to the Call??15. ‘Write what it is to be man’: What Literature is Called to Do? 16. The Call of the Muses and The Lure of the Sirens: Ezra Pound’s and T.S. Eliot’s literary vocation? 17. Poetry as a Call to Dance: George Mackay Brown and the Healing Power of Literature? 18. Poetry and Silence: The Dilemma for the Spiritual Poet