Self/Same/Other Re-visioning the Subject in Literature and Theology

by Walton, Heather; Hass, Andrew W.

• ISBN13: 9781841270197
• ISBN10: 1841270199
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

This collection of essays explores the way our notions of self, other, subjectivity, gender and the sacred text are being re-visioned within contemporary theory. These new ways of conceiving create upheavals and radical shifts that rework our understanding of philosophical, psychological, political, sexual and spiritual identity, allowing us to trace the fault lines, regulatory forces, exclusions and unmarked spaces both within our selves, and within the discourses that attend these selves. As such, revisionings break down borders, and the encounter of literature and theology becomes a crucial focus for these explorations, as the self learns to resituate its own being creatively vis-a-vis others and, ultimately, the Other.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. 7
Re-visioning the Subject in Literature and Theology	p. 10
Remember Me! Traces of the Self as Other in Seventeenth-Century English Devotional Poetry	p. 20
The Nostalgia of Adieux	p. 34
'Curse God and Die': The Bible as Other in Sylvia Plath's 'Lady Lazarus'	p. 45
The Psychospiritual in the Literary Analysis of Modernist Texts	p. 54
Listeners on the Stair: The Child as Other in Walter de la Mare	p. 70
Self and Mystical Rebirth in H.D.'s Trilogy	p. 83
J. B. Pontalis and the Adolescent Self	p. 97
Writing on Exiles and Excess: Toward a New Form of Subjectivity	p. 106
Female Heterologies: Women's Mysticism, Gender-Mixing and the Apophatic	p. 125
Ethical Alterities?	p. 137
Jacob, Esau and the Strife of Meanings	p. 160
The Skull beneath the Skin: Light Shadow Reading in the Valley of Dry Bones	p. 175
The Blighted Palimpsest of Tess of the d'Urbervilles	p. 183
Transcending the Other-Self	p. 194
Index of References	p. 209
Index of Authors	p. 211
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