Visions and Revisions

The Word and the Text
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4332-4
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 165 Seiten

Literary texts are more or less obliged to make reference to entities beyond themselves. Drawing on other texts, ideas previously written, or on the resources of language, they make their attempts to communicate, entertain, and enlist sympathy, or even to offer counsel. Some texts profess an a priori vision, others adopt a style of reporting only contingencies.

A dialogic relation can be posited between the ideal and the real, heaven and earth, imagination and reason, langue and parole, essence and substance, poetry and prose. The poetic and creative impulse is engaged with an ever present need to purify the dialect of the tribe. The topics in Visions and Revisions reflect writers’ labours with form at whatever distance from the original sources of inspiration. The authors discussed include William Blake, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, William Golding, John Irving, David Lodge, Sara Maitland and Hilary Mantel.

Verbal by definition, texts make use of other texts and are dependent on the cultural matrix. Readers are also writers in one kind or another. In both modes they may gain impetus or inspiration by re-visioning their origins as well as their ends. This book will offer readers new ways to understand the literary creations of some writers with affinities to the Western spiritual, and specifically Christian, tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kojecký, Roger

Tate, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Kojecký is Secretary of the Christian Literary Studies Group and Editor of its journal, The Glass. He is among the contributors to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (IVP), and has lectured recently at universities in Krakow, Olomouc, Toronto and Beijing.

Andrew Tate is Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University, where he teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. He is the author of three books: Douglas Coupland (2007), Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (2008) and, with Arthur Bradley, The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic After 9/11 (2010).