APOLOGY FOR THE TEXT, OR WIGS AND VEILS1
In spite of limited resources, intellectual diversity, and arguments that texts are overrated as a method and object of study, this essay argues that religion and literature maintains a vital and even subversive identity by its commitment to the text After challenging Lawrence Sullivan's argume...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2000
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Literature and theology
Year: 2000, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 412-429 |
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| Summary: | In spite of limited resources, intellectual diversity, and arguments that texts are overrated as a method and object of study, this essay argues that religion and literature maintains a vital and even subversive identity by its commitment to the text After challenging Lawrence Sullivan's argument against the ‘tyranny of the text’ in religious studies, I sketch three dimensions of texts that concern religion and literature as I see it the aesthetic, the critical, and the transcendental With an emphasis on the subversive function of religion and literature, I apply a hermeneutic of suspicion to these dimensions of text through two metaphors the wig (la perruque) and the veil. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/14.4.412 |