Catholic Theologians Have developed the relatively new term "inculturation" to discuss the old problem of adapting the Church universal to specific local cultures. Europeans needed a thousand years to
How have we thought “the body”? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the “mystical body of Christ”—all these (and others) are inco
This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling--and, by extension, about the philo
Hidden--Richard Giannone's searingly honest, richly insightful memoir-eloquently captures the author's transformation from a solitary gay academic to a dedicated caregiver as well as a sexually and sp
This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown University's English Department. Inspired by Georgetown's Lannan Center for Poetics
Bhreathnach-Lynch is the curator of Irish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland and a native Irish woman. She has chosen essays for this volume that reflect her belief that the art of a country both
Barolini collects 16 essays published from 1983 to 2005, but mostly after 1992, that together buttress her opinion that Dante (1265-1321) began Italian literary culture. Her topics include Inferno 5 i
Gabriel Marcel's reflective method is animated by his extra-philosophical commitment to battle the ever-present threat of dehumanization in late Western modernity. Unfortunately, Marcel neglected to e
How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land--Land how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholar
The intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavor, or essence, In
Rapp begins with a question posed by the poet Theodore Roethke: "Should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?" Through her examination of Plato's Phaedrus and her insights about the pl
