TY - BOOK AU - Barratt,David AU - Pooley,Roger AU - Ryken,Leland TI - The discerning reader: Christian perspectives on literature and theory SN - 0851114458 (pbk) : PY - 1995/// CY - Leicester PB - Apollos KW - Criticism KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Christianity and culture KW - Literature KW - Related to KW - Theology N1 - 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 ER -