Theology and Literature Rethinking Reader Responsibility
By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to well-establi
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Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility Edited by Gaye Williams Ortiz and Clara A.B. Joseph
THEOLOGY AND LITERATURE
© Gaye Williams Ortiz and Clara A. B. Joseph, 2006. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-1-4039-7198-2 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-53334-3 ISBN 978-1-4039-8299-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781403982995 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Theology and literature : rethinking reader responsibility / edited by Gaye Williams Ortiz and Clara A.B. Joseph. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: On reader responsibility: an introduction / Clara A.B. Joseph and Gaye Williams Ortiz—Some dilemmas of an ethics of literature / Liebeth Korthals Altes—Only irresponsible people would go into the desert for forty days / David Jasper—The ethics of biblical interpretation / Robert J. Hurley—Samuel Beckett’s use of the Bible and the responsibility of the reader / Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou—On trial / Lewis Owens— Bible and ethics / Johannes Nissen—The playwright, the novelist, and the comedian / Dirk Visser—Dialogue in Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj or Indian home rule / Clara A.B. Joseph—Responsibly performing vulnerability / Erik Borgman—The “Indian” Character of modern Hindi drama / Diana Dimitrova—Film and apocryphal imitation of the Feminine / Elizabeth Philpot—Revolting fantasies / Alison Jasper—Literature as resistance / Dirk De Schutter. ISBN 978-1-349-53334-3 1. Religion and literature. 2. Religion in literature. I. Ortiz, Gaye. II. Joseph, Clara A. B. PN49.T4446 2006 809⬘.93382—dc22
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CONTENTS
Notes on the Contributors
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The Editors
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On Reader Responsibility: An Introduction Clara A.B. Joseph and Gaye Williams Ortiz
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Part 1 Chapter One
Some Dilemmas of an Ethics of Literature Liesbeth Korthals Altes
Part 2 Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
A Theory of Ethical Reading 15
Reading and the Biblical
Only Irresponsible People would go into the Desert for Forty Days: Jim Crace’s Quarantine Or the Diary of another Madman David Jasper The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Rhetoricizing the Foundations Ro
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