商品簡介
How can Christians acknowledge the various worldviews of literary authors while thinking further into what these influential texts mean for the Christian reader? In this book, Laura Barge brings together a collection of essays to help readers answer that question as she practices different strategies of literary criticism from a Christian perspective. She embraces Jaroslav Pelikan's claim that the university remains the custodian of the common memory of any culture and thus cannot escape the obligation to preserve the moral and spiritual history of that culture.
The literature Barge analyzes here comes from a wide spectrum of nineteenth - and twentieth - century literature in the British, American, and Russian canons. Throughout the volume, Barge explores numinous spaces, models of scapegoats, disclosures of the sacred in nature, and the mythos of an absent God, all in an effort to enlighten by unfolding worldviews.
"Because the study of literature is [so] closely connected with the experiences of life itself," Barge writes, "it is also [particularly] in need of the enlightenment of Christian truth." In each of these essays, Barge draws on her years of study and her honest convictions to offer readers models of how better to understand the relationship between texts and Christian life
"Exploring Worldviews in Literature is not only thorough and solidly argued, it will be useful for both graduate and undergraduate students it's both an argument to the academy to include Christian critical viewpoints and an introduction/demonstration to aspiring Christian critics. I can see this book becoming a popular textbook in seminars in faith based colleges and universities."---Chris Willerton, Department of English, Abilene Christian University
作者簡介
Laura Barge has taught as a lecturer in English at Mississippi State University on the Meridian campus since 1997. She previously taught at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and Belhaven College in jackson, where she served as chair of the English department. Her publications include God, the Quest, the Hero. Thematic Structures in Beckett's Fiction (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 1988), as well as numerous journal articles and book reviews
