Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida. By John Schad
‘From a conventional scholarly perspective … word-playing speculations are suspect, dubious, even fishy’ (Schad on Derrida's word play, 132)., I must admit, I'm a bit sea sick after reading Queer Fish. Contrary to what the title might suggest, this is not a text on queer theology (though W...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 489-491 |
| Review of: | Queer fish (Brighton [u.a.] : Sussex Acad. Press, 2004) (Atkinson, Andrew)
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| Summary: | ‘From a conventional scholarly perspective … word-playing speculations are suspect, dubious, even fishy’ (Schad on Derrida's word play, 132)., I must admit, I'm a bit sea sick after reading Queer Fish. Contrary to what the title might suggest, this is not a text on queer theology (though Wilde gets his due), nor is it a treatise undermining logocentricism. No, Schad, who co-organised the ‘life after theory’ conference, takes his readers on a deep-sea expedition in Victorian textual waters. His goal: to chart the odd figurations of Christian themes in an age where humans discovered they came from the sea—the same sea into which the Victorian church was crumbling. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frl055 |