Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary

Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9781532699221
ISBN-13 : 1532699220
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary by : Jane Petkovic

The Judeo-Christian scriptures understand humans as being made in the image of God. What exactly does this mean? Basic agreement is that it means humans can only know and understand themselves in relation to God. If, however, this God is pure uncreated spirit, where does human embodiment fit in? Is it an obstacle to understanding? Or is it in some way instructive? John Paul II comes down decisively in favor of the body’s value and importance. In his catechetical series, widely known as the Theology of the Body, John Paul II analyzes what is distinctive about human beings. He undertakes a “reading” of the body. This book reflects on John Paul II’s interpretation, extending his findings to the Virgin Mary. Her specifically female, maternal body is seen to offer insights into how the body images God—in how it “speaks.” The transformations of the female body parallel the transformations of language in poetry. The reconfigurations and accommodations of the gestational body are, this book suggests, poetic incarnations of God-likeness. Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary offers a Mariological slant on theological anthropology and a new way to think of how humans poetically image God.

Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary

Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781532699245
ISBN-13 : 1532699247
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary by : Jane Petkovic

The Judeo-Christian scriptures understand humans as being made in the image of God. What exactly does this mean? Basic agreement is that it means humans can only know and understand themselves in relation to God. If, however, this God is pure uncreated spirit, where does human embodiment fit in? Is it an obstacle to understanding? Or is it in some way instructive? John Paul II comes down decisively in favor of the body's value and importance. In his catechetical series, widely known as the Theology of the Body, John Paul II analyzes what is distinctive about human beings. He undertakes a "reading" of the body. This book reflects on John Paul II's interpretation, extending his findings to the Virgin Mary. Her specifically female, maternal body is seen to offer insights into how the body images God--in how it "speaks." The transformations of the female body parallel the transformations of language in poetry. The reconfigurations and accommodations of the gestational body are, this book suggests, poetic incarnations of God-likeness. Body-Poetics of the Virgin Mary offers a Mariological slant on theological anthropology and a new way to think of how humans poetically image God.

Parody, the Avant-garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo

Parody, the Avant-garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 0820478970
ISBN-13 : 9780820478975
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Parody, the Avant-garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo by : Patricia M. Montilla

Oliverio Girondo is a leading figure of the Spanish American avant-garde. Parody, the Avant-Garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo examines the presence and function of parody in Girondo's early poetry and drawings. It illustrates how, through the subversion of both conventional and vanguard poetics, these texts discredit the values imposed upon artistic production by institutionalized models and social codes. This book assesses the extent to which Girondo followed the theories outlined in his critical writings and considers how his works fit into the general trajectory of the historical avant-garde and contemporary Spanish American literature.

Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry

Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781009390316
ISBN-13 : 1009390317
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry by : Jennifer A. Lorden

Firmly establishes the importance of early affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry.

Gender in Debate From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance

Gender in Debate From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781137079978
ISBN-13 : 1137079975
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender in Debate From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance by : T. Fenster

Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic authors like Chaucer but truly begun by Christine de Pizan (1364-1429), and therefore primarily of English and French origin. That emphasis has obscured the ways in which both writers were participating in a much wider, much older cultural phenomenon with varied and intractable roots. Articles in this collection explore how gender is put into debate in Anglo-Saxon, German, Spanish and Italian cultures, and they re-examine French and Middle English debate literature. The collection is carefully planned to be accessible to students seeking an idea of the debate's motifs and contours while maintaining the high level of issue involvement necessary to commanding a more seasoned audience. Contributors include Pamela Benson, Alcuin Blamires, Margaret Franklin, Roberta Krueger, Clare Lees and Gillian Overing, Ann Matter, Karen Pratt, Helen Solterer, Julian Weiss, and Barbara Weissberger.

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781498592734
ISBN-13 : 1498592732
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition by : Christopher M. Flavin

Christopher M. Flavin examines the ways in which late classical medieval women’s writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.

Poetry with reference to Aristotle's poetics. Introduction of rationalistic principles into revealed religion. Fall of La Mennais. Palmer's view of faith and unity. Theology of St. Ignatius. Prospects of the Anglican Church. The Anglo-American Church. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon

Poetry with reference to Aristotle's poetics. Introduction of rationalistic principles into revealed religion. Fall of La Mennais. Palmer's view of faith and unity. Theology of St. Ignatius. Prospects of the Anglican Church. The Anglo-American Church. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon
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Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89001046598
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Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetry with reference to Aristotle's poetics. Introduction of rationalistic principles into revealed religion. Fall of La Mennais. Palmer's view of faith and unity. Theology of St. Ignatius. Prospects of the Anglican Church. The Anglo-American Church. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon by : John Henry Newman

Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816

Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9781800345447
ISBN-13 : 1800345445
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816 by : Ada Rapoport-Albert

A timely and fascinating study of an early modern movement that transcended traditional Jewish gender paradigms and allowed women to express their spirituality freely in the public arena.

The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary

The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9780230615380
ISBN-13 : 0230615384
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary by : S. Chaganti

Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England.

The Lava in My Bones

The Lava in My Bones
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Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781551524795
ISBN-13 : 1551524791
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lava in My Bones by : Barry Webster

A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. Back home, his young sister is a high-school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah. Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. The siblings are reunited on a ship bound for Europe where they hope to start a new life, but are unaware that their disguised mother is also on board and plotting to win back their souls, with the help of the Virgin Mary. Told in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality. Barry Webster's first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for story collections.