Spoken Word and Spirit's Breath: A Theopoetics of Performance Poetry
Stanley Romaine Hopper defined theopoiesis as a performative form of thinking that effect[s] disclosure through the crucial nexus of event'. Unlike theology which seeks an explanation of the revelatory through the tools of rational discourse, this poetic and participatory activity is a breath...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2019]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 292-306 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology NBB Doctrine of Revelation VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Stanley Romaine Hopper defined theopoiesis as a performative form of thinking that effect[s] disclosure through the crucial nexus of event'. Unlike theology which seeks an explanation of the revelatory through the tools of rational discourse, this poetic and participatory activity is a breathing with the inhale and exhale of Being
that "the god" may breathe through us'. Following Hopper, this article addresses the performative event' of the spoken word as a window into a discussion of creative breath, exploring its implications for a theology that seeks to breathe with' the Spirit. The use of breath in the work of contemporary poets Tony Walsh and Kate Tempest demonstrates a perhaps largely unacknowledged form of poetic difficulty' (one of Geoffrey Hill's criteria for good poetry) in the spoken word. Their intriguing practices of creative breath may contribute to a theopoetics of the Spirit that takes poetic performance seriously as a means of revelatory disclosure. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frz020 |