In this book, Ruf tries to understand how the concepts of "voice"
and "genre" function in texts, especially religious texts. To this
end, he joins literary theorists in the discussion about
"narrative." Ruf rejects the idea of genre as a fixed historical
form that serves as a template for readers and writers; instead, he
suggests that we imagine different genres, whether narrative,
lyric, or dramatic, as the expression of different voices. Each
voice, he asserts, possesses different key qualities: embodiment,
sociality, contextuality, and opacity in the dramatic voice;
intimacy, limitation, urgency in lyric; and a "magisterial" quality
of comprehensiveness and cohesiveness in narrative. These voices
are models for our selves, composing an unruly and unstable
multiplicity of selves. Ruf applies his theory of "voice" and
"genre" to five texts: Dineson's Out of Africa, Donne's Holy
Sonnets, Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Robert Wilson's Einstein
on the Beach, and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Through these
literary works, he discerns the detailed ways in which a text
constructs a voice and, in the process, a self. More importantly,
Ruf demonstrates that this process is a religious one, fulfilling
the function that religions traditionally assume: that of defining
the self and its world.
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