1980s
21.2 (Summer 1989)
Articles
- Walter J. Ong, SJ, “T.S. Eliot and Today’s Ecumenism”
- Michel Despland, “To Interpose a Little Ease: Chateaubriand on Christianity and the Modern World”
- J.R. Goodall, “Theories of the Unheimliche and Rilke’s Phantom Hand
- Alan Jacobs, “Beyond Romanticism: Auden’s Choice of Tradition”
Book Reviews
- Thomas Jemielity on
- Philip Davis, In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler
- Nicholas Hudson, Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought
- T.R. Wright on
- Margaret R. Ellsberg, Created to Praise: The Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Jeffrey B. Loomis, Dayspring in Darkness: Sacrament in Hopkins
- Walter J. Ong, SJ., Hopkins, the Self, and God
- Kathleen Verduin on
- Lyndall Gordon, Eliot’s New Life
- Barbara Reynolds, The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Encounter with Dante
Book Notices
- René Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- Willard J. Courtenay, Schools and Scholars in Fourth-Century England
- Lawrence Besserman, Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review of Research, Indexes, and Bibliography
- Gene Koppel, The Religious Dimension of Jane Austen’s Novels
21.1 (Spring 1989)
Articles
- Ronald L. Grimes, “Analogy and Ritualization: Baptism in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away”
- Janet L. Larson, “Margaret Atwood and the Future of Prophecy”
- Ted L. Estess, “Walker Percy’s Eschatological Fiction: A Reading of The Second Coming”
- John M. Neary, “‘Ah: Runs’: Updike, Rabbit, and Repetition”
- Will Soll, “Chaim Potok’s _Book of Lights: _Reappropriating Kabbalah in the Nuclear Age”
Book Reviews
- Sally Fitzgerald on:
- Edward Kessler, Flannery O’Connor and the Language of Apocalypse
- Bruce Marshall Gentry, Flannery O’Connor’s Religion of the Grotesque
- John F. Desmond, Risen Sons: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of History
- Lawrence Cunningham on Robert Detweiler, Breaking the Fall: Religious Readings of Contemporary Fiction
20.3 (Autumn 1988)
Articles
- Brayton Polka, “The Critique of Poetry: Text, Philosophy, and the Bible”
- Thomas A Vogler, “Eighteenth-Century Logology and the Book of Job”
- Bernhard Radloff, “The Truth of Indirection and the Possibility of the Holy in Billy Budd”
- J. Gerland Janzen, “Reassessing Frost’s Fair Impression and his Mistrust”
- David Kaufmann, “Closure as Covenant: The Means Justify the End”
Book Reviews
- Anthony Low on:
- Donald R. Dickson, The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne
- Chana Bloch, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible
- Stanley Stewart, George Herbert
- William H. Pahlka, Saint Augustine’s Meter and George Herbert’s Will
- Sargent Bush, Jr. on:
- Horton Davies, Like Angels From a Could: The Metaphysical Preachers, 1588-1645
- Teresa Toulouse, The Art of Prophesying : New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief
20.2 (Summer 1988)
Articles
- Keith Fort, “Satire and Gnosticism”
- Jeanne Moskal, “Forgiveness, Love, and Pride in Blake’s The Everlasting Gospel”
- Colin Falck, “The ‘Identity’ of Poetry and Religion”
- Daniel Schenker, “Favoring the Divine: Wyndham Lewis’s The Human Age”
Book Reviews
- David Jasper on Robert Alter and Frank Kermode, eds., The Literary Guide to the Bible
- Sanford Schwartz on:
- Harriet Davidson, T.S. Eliot and Hermeneutics: Absence and Interpretation in The Waste Land
- Cleo McNelly Kearns, T.S. Eliot and Indic Traditions: A Study in Poetry and Belief
- William Skaff, The Philosophy of T.S. Eliot: From Skepticism to a Surrealistic Poetic, 1909-1927
- P.S. Sri, T.S. Eliot, Vedanta and Buddhism
Book Notices
- Ritchie D. Kendall, The Drama of Dissent: The Radical Poetics of Nonconformity, 1380-1590
- Margaret P. Hannay, ed., Silent But for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works
- Joanne Witke, William Blake’s epic: Imagination Unbound
- Jerome Taylor, In Search of Self: Life, Death and Walker Percy
20.1 (Spring 1988)
Articles
Introduction
- Issa J. Boullata, “Convention and Invention: Islamic Literature in Fourteen Centuries”
The Qur’an
- Fazlur Rahman, “Translating the Qur’an”
- Margaret Larkin, “The Inimitability of the Qur’an: Two Perspectives”
- Mustansir Mir, “The Qur’an as Literature”
Islamic Mysticism
- Annemarie Schimmel, “Mystical Poetry in Islam: The Case of Maulana Jalaladdin Rumi”
- Ali S. Asani, “Sufi Poetry in the Folk Tradition of Indo-Pakistan”
Modern Literature
- Trevor Le Gassick, “The Faith of Islam in Modern Arabic Fiction”
- Patrick D. Gaffney, “Magic, Miracle, and the Politics of Narration in the Contemporary Islamic Sermon”
- Miriam Cooke, “Prisons: Egyptian Women Writers on Islam”
Afterward
- Herbert Mason, “Impressions of an Arabic Poetry Festival”
Book Reviews
- Andreas Hamori on Maria Rosa Menocal, The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
- Issa J. Boullata on Abdullah al-Udhari, trans. and ed., Modern Poetry of the Arab World
Volume 19.3 (Autumn 1987)
Articles
- Kinereth Meyer, “Visionary Poetry and Breaking of the Tablets”
- Charles A. Huttar, “_Paradise Regained_, the Hermeneutical Circle, and Christian Anticipations of Post-Modern Theory
- Sue Mitchell Crowley, “Mr. Blackmur’s Lowell: How Does Morality Got into Literature?”
- Richard Grigg, “Language, the Other, and God: On Italo Cavino’s Last Novels
Book Reviews
- Louis Dupré on Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord, vols. I-III. Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Robert Detweiler on Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, vols. I-II.
- John H. Yoder on René Girard, The Scapegoat
- Robert Entzminger on:
- Hugh MacCallum, Milton and the Sons of God: The Divine Image in Milton’s Poetry
- Kathleen M. Swaim, Before and After the Fall: Contrasting Modes in Paradise Lost
Book Notices
- David C. Fowler, The Bible in Middle English Literature
Volume 19.2 (Summer 1987)
Articles
- Chaim Potok, “The Culture Highways We Travel”
- H. Mark Roelofs, “George Orwell’s Obscured Utopia”
- Donald Davie, “R. S. Thomas’s Poetry of the Church in Wales”
- David Walsh, “Dostoevsky’s Discovery of the Christian Foundation of Politics”
Book Reviews
- Michael Vander Weele on:
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
- Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, ed., The Hermeneutics Reader: Texts of the German Tradition of the Enlightenment to the Present
- Thomas R. Whitaker on David Daiches, God and the Poets: The Gifford Lectures. 1983
- Eugene Webb on Thomas J. J. Altizer, History as Apocalypse
- Mary Gerhart on:
- Heinrich Böll, Frauen vor Flusslandschaft: Roman in Dialogen und Selbst Gerprachen
- Heinrich Böll, A Soldier’s Legacy
- Heinrich Böll, The Stories of Heinrich Böll
- Heinrich Böll, What’s To Become of the Boy? or: Something To Do With Books
Book Notices
- Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin
- Amy Schrager Lang, Prophetic Women: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Volume 19.1 (Spring 1987)
Articles
- Duncan Robertson, “The Experience of Reading: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs, I”
- Kathleen Verduin, “The Lord of Heroes: Hemingway and the Crucified Christ”
- James Lindroth, “Simone Weil and Wallace Stevens: The Notion of Decreation as Subject in ‘An Ordinary Evening in New Haven’”
- Catherine Brown Tkacz, “The Bible in Medieval Literature: A Bibliographic Essay on Basic and New Sources”
Book Reviews
- Julia Bolston Holloway on:
- Elizabeth Alvida Petroff, ed., Medieval Women’s Visionary Literature
- Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias
- Hildegard of Bingen, Illuminations
- Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns
- John C. Meagher on C. A. Patrides and Joseph Wittreich, ed., The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature
- James Walter on Louise Cowan, ed., The Terrain of Comedy
Volume 18.3 (Autumn 1986)
Articles
- Elisa New, “Difficult Writing, Difficult God: Emily Dickinson’s Poems Beyond Circumference”
- Rowena Revis Jones, “‘A Royal Seal’: Emily Dickinson’s Rite of Baptism”
- Charles Isenberg, “Satan in Goray and Ironic Restitution”
- Dianna Vitanza, “The Cloister and the Hearth: A Popular Response to the Oxford Movement”
Book Reviews
- Edward J. Gallagher on:
- Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
- Mitchell Robert Breitwieser, Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin: The Price of Representative Personality
- Martin Bidney on Richard E. Brantley, Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism
Book Notices
- Sara E. Melzer, Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal’s Pensées.
- Nathan A. Scott, Jr., The Poetics of Belief
Volume 18.2 (Summer 1986)
Articles
- Dennis M. Welch, “’Cloth’d with human beauty’: Milton and Blake’s Incarnational Aesthetic”
- Emily Archer, “‘Stalking Joy’: Flanner O’Connor’s Accurate Naming”
- James E. Robinson, “Murder in the Cathedral as Theatre of the Spirit”
- Michon Marie Matthiesen, “Narrative of Suffering: Complementary Reflections of Theological Anthropology in Johann Metz and Elie Weisel”
Book Reviews
- Elena Malits, CSC on Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Archetypes of Conversion: The Autobiographies of Augustine, Bunyan, and Merton
- James S. Cutsinger on:
- Anthony John Harding, Coleridge and the Inspired Word
- David Jasper, Coleridge as Poet and Religious Thinker
- Daniel C. Noel on:
- Agnes McNeill Donohue, Hawthorne: Calvin’s Ironic Stepchild
- William Hamilton, Melville and the Gods
Volume 18.1 (Spring 1986)
Articles
- William E. Rogers, “Ricoeur and the Privileging of Texts: Scripture and Literature”
- Carole Slade, “Saint Teresa’s Meditaciones sobre los Cantares”
- Joyce Lorraine Beck, “Denise Levertov’s Poetics and Oblique Prayers”
- Janine Langan, “Icon vs. Myth: Dostoevsky, Feminism, and Pornography”
Book Reviews
- Paul Mariani on:
- Milton J. Bates, Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self
- David M. LaGuardia, Advance on Chaos: The Sanctifying Imagination of Wallace Stevens
- Marylou Motto, Mined with a Motion: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Joseph Wittreich on Mark Bracher, Being Form’d: Thinking Through Blake’s Milton
- Jack R. May on Douglas Robinson, American Apocalypse: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature
Volume 17.3 (Autumn 1985)
Articles
- David Jasper, “The New Testament and Literary Interpretation”
- Jeffrey A. Hammond, “‘Make Use of What I Leave in Love’: Anne Bradstreet’s Didactic Self”
- Merrill Meguire Skaggs, “A Good Girl in Her Place: Cather’s Shadows on the Rock”
- Bernard Doering, “Jacques Maritain, George Bernanos, and Julien Green on the Mystery of Suffering”
Book Reviews
- John J. McDonald on:
- Robert Detweiler, ed., Art/Literature/Religion: Life on the Borders
- Mark C. Taylor, Erring: A Postmodern A/theology
- Anne Marie Mallon on:
- Arthur F. Kinney, Flannery O’Connor’s Library: Resources of Being
- Carter W. Martin, ed., The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews
- Frederick Asals, Flannery O’Connor: The Imagination of Extremity
- Marion Montgomery, Why Flanner O’Connor Stayed Home
- Robert Coles, Flannery O’Connor’s South
- Carol Shloss, Flannery O’Connor’s Dark Comedies: The Limits of Inference
- Susan Dickman on:
- Richard Kieckhefer, Unquiet Souls
- Clarisse W. Atkinson, Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe
Book Notices
- Martha Tuck Rozett, The Doctrine of Election and the Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy
- Robert Reed, Jr., Crime and God’s Judgment in Shakespeare
- Allen J. Frantzen, The Literature of Penance in Anglo-Saxon England
Volume 17.2 (Summer 1985)
Articles
- Eric O. Springsted, “Contradiction, Mystery and Use of Words in Simone Weil”
- Diogenes Allen, “George Herbert and Simone Weil”
- John M. Dunaway, “Estrangement and the Need for Roots: Prophetic Visions of the Human Condition in Albert Camus and Simone Weil”
- Ann Loades, “Eucharistic Sacrifice: Simone Weil’s Use of a Liturgical Metaphor”
Book Reviews
- Anthony Low on:
- Ira Clark, Christ Revealed: The History of the Neotypological Lyric in the English Renaissance
- John Klause, The Unfortunate Fall: Theodicy and the Moral Imagination of Andrew Marvell
- Richard Strier, Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert’s Poetry
- David Lavery on:
- Annie Dillard, Living by Fiction
- Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
- Annie Dillard, Encounters with Chinese Writers
- Melita Schaum on Mark Krupnick, ed., Displacement: Derrida and After
Book Notices
- Theodore Bogdanos, Pearl: Image of the Ineffable
- Charles E. Pierce, Jr., The Religious Life of Johnson
- William H. Robinson, Phillis Wheatley and her Writings
- Giles Gunn, ed., The Bible and American Arts and Letters
Volume 17.1 (Spring 1985)
Articles
- Joseph A. Mazzeo, “Medieval Hermeneutics: Dante’s Poetic and Historicity”
- Michael Vander Weele, “History, Irony and the Heavenly Phoenix of Interpretation”
- Eugene Webb, “The Alchemy of Man and the Alchemy of God: The Alchemist as Cultural Symbol in Modern Thought”
- Daniel M. McVeigh, “Coleridge’s Doctrine of the Imagination and the Enigmatic Name of God”
Book Reviews
- Kathryn Hellerstein, Reinventing a Tradition
- Thomas Dilworth, The Arts of David Jones
- Diana Culbertson, Criticism, the Sacred Text
- Douglas Thorpe, Re-vision and Transfiguration
Book Notices
- Horton Davies, Catching the Conscience
- Peter J. Schakel, Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis
- Jan Karel Kouwenhoven, Apparent Narrative as Thematic Metaphor
Volume 16.3 (Autumn 1984)
Articles
- Peter Allan Dale, “Heretical Narration: Charlotte Brontë’s Search for Endlessness”
- David Falk, “Beyond the Volcano: The Religious Vision of Malcolm Lowry’s Late Fiction”
- Robert E. Doud, “Placing Rahner, Interpreting Roethke”
- Peter S. Hawkins, “Resurrecting the Word: Dante and the Bible”
Book Reviews
- Sue Mitchell Crowley on:
- Ian Hamilton, Robert Lowell, A Biography
- Vereen M. Bell, Robert Lowell, Nihilist as Hero
- Mark Rudman, Robert Lowell, An Introduction to the Poetry
- Rachel Hadas on:
- James Merrill, From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976
- James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover
- David Lehman and Charles Berger, James Merrill: Essays in Criticism
Volume 16.2 (Summer 1984)
Articles
- Steven Shankman, “Reason and Revelation in the Pre-Enlightenment: Eric Voegelin’s Analysis and the Case of Swift”
- Janet Larson, “Stories Sacred and Profane: Narrative in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
- James R. Lindroth, “A Consistency of Voice and Vision: O’Connor as Self-Critic”
- John Spencer Hill, “The Phoenix”
Book Reviews
- Richard Fallis on Gregory A. Schirmer, The Poetry of Austin Clarke
- Mary Lynn Broe on Sonia Gernes, The Way to St. Ives
- Frank Clough on Verlyn Flieger, Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World
Volume 16.1 (Winter 1984)
Poetry
- Geoffrey Hartman, “Elegy at the Bodensee”
Articles
- Elie Wiesel, “Noah’s Warning”
- André Neher, “The Renaissance of Hebrew in the Twentieth Century”
- John Felstiner, “Translating Paul Celan’s ‘Jerusalem’ Poems”
- Robert McAfee Brown, “The Nathan Syndrome: Stories with a Moral Intention”
- John J. McDonald, “Religion and Literature”
Book Reviews
- Thomas J.J. Altizer on Susan A. Handelman, The Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory
- Samuel C. Heilman, The People of the Book: Drama, Fellowship, and Religion
Volume 15.3 (Summer 1983)
Poetry
- Herbert Mason, “Under the Sign of THE SEVEN SLEEPERS”
Articles
- G. Douglas Atkins, “Partial Stories: Hebraic and Christian Thinking in the Wake of Deconstruction”
- Stanley Hauerwas, “Constancy and Forgiveness: The Novel as a School for Virtue”
- Richard E. Palmer, “Postmodern Hermeneutics and the Act of Reading”
- William Clyde Brown, “The Ambiguities of Thomas Hardy”
Book Review
- Dayton Haskin on Georgia B. Christopher, Milton and the Science of the Saints
Volume 15.2 (Spring 1983)
Articles
- Lawrence Buell, “Literature and Scripture in New England Between the Revolution and the Civil War”
- Joseph A. Buttigieg, “The Interest of Irony”
- Sallie McFague, “The Parabolic in Faulkner, O’Connor, and Percy”
- Wallace Fowlie, “Faith and Narrative in Dante”
Volume 15.1 (Winter 1983)
Articles
- Dolores Warwick Frese, “Wulf and Eadwacer: The Adulterous Woman Reconsidered”
- John H. Timmerman, “Typology and Biblical Consistency in Billy Budd”
- James Lill, “A Lesson in Futurity: Johnson’s Life of Sir Thomas Brown”
- Regina Schwartz, “Free Will and Character Autonomy in the Bible”
Book Reviews
James Dougherty
Norman Chaney, Theodore Roethke: The Poetics of Wonder
Thomas Gaiton Marullo
Robert Louis Jackson, The Art of Dostoevsky: Deliriums and Nocturnes
John C. Nerone
Nathan O. Hatch and Mark R. Noll, eds., The Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History
Volume 14.2 (Spring 1982)
Articles
- Fred S. Heuman, “Some Major Biblical Sources in Thomas Mann’s Joseph Tetralogy”
- Vincent B. Sherry, Jr., “A New Boast for In Parenthesis: The Dramatic Monology of David Jones”
- John Matthias, “David Jones: Letters to H. S. Ede”
- Brother George Klawitter, CSC, “A New David Jones Letter”
Book Reviews
- Marjorie Schreiber Kinsey on Paul Hills with Nicolete Gray, David Jones
- Cornel West on Hans W. Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics
- Jonathan A. Glenn on Richard Kenneth Emmerson, Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study in Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature
- Kerry J. Koller on Henning Fenger, Kierkegaard, The Myths and Their Origins
Volume 14.1 (Winter 1982)
Articles
- W. Richard Comstock, “Religion, Literature, and Religious Studies: A Sketch of Their Modal Connections”
- Frances M. Malpezz, “The Feast of the Circumcision: The Return to Sacred Time in Herrick’s Noble Numbers”
- William Shullenberger, “Christ as Metaphor: Figural Instruction in Milton’s Nativity Ode”
- G. Farrell Lee, “Grotesque and the Demonism of Silence: Beckett’s Endgame”
Book Reviews
- Paul John Eakin on William C. Spengemann, The Forms of Autobiography: Episodes in the History of a Literary Genre
- Walter R. Davis on John R. Knott, Jr., The Sword of the Spirit: Puritan Responses to the Bible
- Lawrence Rosenwald on Sargent Bush, Jr., The Writings of Thomas Hooker: Spiritual Adventure in Two Worlds
Volume 13.3 (Summer 1981)
Articles
- M.H. Abrams, “Kant and the Theology of Art”
- Felicia Bonaparte, “_Middlemarch_: The Genesis of Myth in the English Novel: The Relationship Between Literary Form and the Modern Predicament”
- Kenneth Burke, “Variations on ‘Providence’”
- Mark Searle, “Liturgy and Metaphor”
Volume 13.1 (Autumn 1980)
Articles
- Richard Giannone, “Willa Cather as Psalmist”
- William F. Lynch, SJ, “The Drama of the Mind. An Ontology of the Imagination”
- Thomas J. Morrissey, “The Self and the Meditative Tradition in Donne’s Devotions”
- G. Douglas Atkins, “J. Hillis Miller, Deconstruction, and the Recovery of Transcendence”
Book Reviews
- Thomas R. Whitaker on Alla Bozarth-Campbell, The Word’s Body: An Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation
- Michael Kramer on James Dougherty, The Fivesquare City: The City in the Religious Imagination
- Matei Calinescu on Mircea Eliade, The Old Man and the Bureaucrats: A Novella
Volume 12.2 (April 1980)
Articles
- J. Hillis Miller, “Wuthering Heights and the Ellipses of Interpretation”
- Walter R. Davis, “Homily and Poem: Doctrine and Form”
- Nicholas Wolterstorff, “Was Macduff of Woman Born? The Ontology of Characters”
- Thomas Werge, “Dante’s Ulysses and Ahab’s Voyage: The Angelic Imagination in the Literal World”