The discerning reader : Christian perspectives on literature and theory /

The discerning reader : Christian perspectives on literature and theory / edited by David Barratt, Roger Pooley, Leland Ryken. - Leicester : Apollos, 1995. - 320 p. ; 21 cm.

Index.

What does literature do? / Roger Pooley -- Canons / Valentine Cunningham -- Christian poetics, past and present / Donald T. Williams -- Reading and interpretive communities / Donald G. Marshall -- The turn to history / John D. Cox -- The woman's place / Elisabeth Jay -- Words and presences : the spiritual imperative / Kevin Mills -- The Bible and literary study / Leland Ryken -- Shakespeare and Christianity / Rowland Cotterill -- Reading Paradise lost / U. Milo Kaufmann -- Romantic poetry and the wholly spirit / J.R. Watson -- Time for Hardy : Jude and the obscuring of scripture / David Barratt -- How feminist can a handmaid be? : Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Elizabeth Clarke -- Why wait for an angel? : Thomas Pynchon's The crying of Lot 49 / John Schad -- For further reading : a survey / David Barratt.

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Criticism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Christianity and culture.

Literature Related to Theology