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This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily
experience (i.e. the 'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry
functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal
horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is
around a 'phenomenology of the flesh' as that which connects us
with the world, being the site of perception and feeling, joy and
suffering, and of life itself in all its vulnerability. The voices
represented in this collection reflect interdisciplinary methods of
interpretation and broadly ecumenical sensibilities, focusing
attention on such matters as the revelatory nature of language in
general and poetic language in particular, the function of poetry
in society, the question of Incarnation and its relation to
language and the poetic arts, the kenosis of the Word, and human
embodiment in relation to the word 'enfleshed' in poetry.
This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily
experience (i.e. the 'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry
functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal
horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is
around a 'phenomenology of the flesh' as that which connects us
with the world, being the site of perception and feeling, joy and
suffering, and of life itself in all its vulnerability. The voices
represented in this collection reflect interdisciplinary methods of
interpretation and broadly ecumenical sensibilities, focusing
attention on such matters as the revelatory nature of language in
general and poetic language in particular, the function of poetry
in society, the question of Incarnation and its relation to
language and the poetic arts, the kenosis of the Word, and human
embodiment in relation to the word 'enfleshed' in poetry.
This reading of George Herbert's poetry takes advantage of
contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and
of language. The book presents George Herbert's poetic sequence,
The Temple, as the poet's response to a call which originates in
the Word made flesh and at the same time resounds within the depths
of an individual self. The focus of this analysis falls on the
essential "Englishness" of Herbert's poetry and its material
weight: its visual concreteness, its musical harmonies, and its
attention to human flesh made (English) word.
This collection of essays explores poetry's contribution to the
expression of theological wonder, which can occur both in ordinary
life and in the natural world or can arise in the context of
explicitly supernatural mystical experience. Poets have a special
role in capturing religious awe in ways beyond the power of
discursive language. Some essays in this book approach the subject
on a theoretical level, working with theology, philosophy and
literary criticism. Others provide close readings of poems in which
the engagement with a variously understood idea or experience of
wonder is prominent, from the English-language tradition and
outside it. Poets from culturally and historically different
backgrounds are thus drawn together through the focus on the
meaning of wonder.
This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a
literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores
the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words,
so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of
the divine Word on the Cross. An introductory discussion of
language and prayer is followed by reflections linking poetry with
religious experience and theology, especially apophatic, and
questioning the ability of language to reach out beyond itself. The
central section foregrounds the motif of the suffering flesh, while
the final section, including essays on seventeenth-century English
metaphysical poetry and several of the great poets of the twentieth
century, is devoted to the sounds and rhythms which give a poem its
own kind of "body".
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