The Word and the Wheel: Navigating the Incarnation in Twentieth-Century Literature

This essay maintains that an incarnational aesthetic often privileges the concrete over the abstract, transcends the dichotomy between the secular and the sacred, and offers a glimpse into the intersection of time and eternity, as evidenced in the works of Kathleen Norris, Madeleine L’Engle, James J...

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Main Author: Artuso, Kathryn Stelmach (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 500-519
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
NBF Christology
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Incarnation in literature
B UNRELIABLE narration
B Incarnation
B Narratives
B Graham Greene
B Word made flesh
B 20TH century literature
B Logos
B GREENE, Graham, 1904-1991
B The End of the Affair
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Summary:This essay maintains that an incarnational aesthetic often privileges the concrete over the abstract, transcends the dichotomy between the secular and the sacred, and offers a glimpse into the intersection of time and eternity, as evidenced in the works of Kathleen Norris, Madeleine L’Engle, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Jorie Graham, though such themes are given particular resonance in the non-linear narrative technique of Graham Greene’s novel The End of the Affair. Greene seeks to represent the simultaneity of past, present, and future in the cyclical technique of his novel, which offers the unreliable narrator a redemptive entrance into God’s wheeling story of eternal love. The revelation of Christ’s Incarnation and a revaluation of corporeal presence stand at the heart of this novel, underscoring how human intimacy is a window into divine intimacy.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333117708258