
Visions and Revisions
The Word and the Text
Andrew Tate(Author)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 4. February 2013
Book
Hardback
165 pages
978-1-4438-4332-4 (ISBN)
Description
Literary texts are more or less obliged to make reference to entities beyond themselves. Drawing on other texts, ideas previously written, or on the resources of language, they make their attempts to communicate, entertain, and enlist sympathy, or even to offer counsel. Some texts profess an a priori vision, others adopt a style of reporting only contingencies.A dialogic relation can be posited between the ideal and the real, heaven and earth, imagination and reason, langue and parole, essence and substance, poetry and prose. The poetic and creative impulse is engaged with an ever present need to purify the dialect of the tribe. The topics in Visions and Revisions reflect writers' labours with form at whatever distance from the original sources of inspiration. The authors discussed include William Blake, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, William Golding, John Irving, David Lodge, Sara Maitland and Hilary Mantel.Verbal by definition, texts make use of other texts and are dependent on the cultural matrix. Readers are also writers in one kind or another. In both modes they may gain impetus or inspiration by re-visioning their origins as well as their ends. This book will offer readers new ways to understand the literary creations of some writers with affinities to the Western spiritual, and specifically Christian, tradition.
Reviews / Votes
"Visions and Revisions collects a series of imaginative and pioneering studies in the ever-developing field of religion and literature. Kojecky and Tate bring together some of the most exciting current reflections on belief, creativity, imagination and politics through a distinctive re-mapping of the literary and poetic through the biblical and spiritual. With sensitivity and wisdom, the essays that comprise this wonderful book offer the reader an array of potential modes of thinking and conceiving the profound influence of Christian tradition in Western culture."- Emma Mason, Reader in English Literature, University of Warwick"If, to adapt Blake, 'man is as he reads' then Visions and Revisions is a book that alerts us to the chance that the world is as we read and, indeed, that if we can but re-read the world, above all the world of words, then what the world is may yet, might just, be different. Visions and Revisions - read and re-read."- John Schad, Professor of Modern Literature, University of LancasterMore details
Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4438-4332-4 (9781443843324)
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E-Book
09/2013
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Persons
Roger Kojecky is Secretary of the Christian Literary Studies Group and Editor of its journal, The Glass. He is among the contributors to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (IVP), and has lectured recently at universities in Krakow, Olomouc, Toronto and Beijing.Andrew Tate is Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University, where he teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. He is the author of three books: Douglas Coupland (2007), Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (2008) and, with Arthur Bradley, The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic After 9/11 (2010).