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Modernism (Literature) --- Religion in literature. --- Russian poetry --- History and criticism

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"The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes -- from boredom to addiction, and distraction -- in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists. In a series of short, topic-focussed chapters, the book joins a selection of key scenes from Wallace's novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King with clear explanations of how they contribute to his overall account of what it means to be a human being in the 21st century. Adam Miller explores how Wallace's work masterfully investigates the nature of first-world boredom and shows, in the process, how easy it is to get addicted to distraction (chemical, electronic, or otherwise). Implicitly critiquing, excising, and repurposing elements of AA's Twelve Step program, Wallace suggests that the practice of prayer (regardless of belief in God), the patient application of attention to things that seem ordinary and boring, and the internalization of cliché may be the antidote to much of what ails us in the 21st century."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Wallace, David Foster --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion in literature. --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry

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Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions were more than philosophical. They were also political. Levinas's investments were born out in his writings on Judaism and ultimately in an evolving conviction that the young state of Israel held the best possibility for achieving such an ideal. For Derrida, the Jewish question was literary. The stakes of Jewish survival could only be approached through reflections on modern literature's religious legacy, a line of thinking that provided him the means to reconceive democracy. Hammerschlag's reexamination of Derrida and Levinas's textual exchange not only produces a new account of this friendship but also has significant ramifications for debates within Continental philosophy, the study of religion, and political theology.

Jewish philosophy --- Religion and literature --- Philosophy and religion in literature --- Literature --- Philosophy --- Levinas, Emmanuel, --- Derrida, Jacques, --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Literature - Philosophy --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 --- Derrida, Jacques, - 1930-2004

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La demi-journée consacrée à Simenon voulait d'emblée dissiper un malentendu : Simenon n'est pas seulement un auteur populaire, le créateur du commissaire Maigret ! C'est un grand écrivain à l'oeuvre foisonnante et diverse : contes et nouvelles, écrits journalistiques, autobiographie, correspondance, à côté des 75 Maigret et des autres romans, exprimant tous de manière poignante le drame existentiel, la révolte et la culpabilité. C'est dans cette perspective que sont proposées des analyses de romans, du Chartier de la "Providence" à La Vieille, l'étude du thème à connotation autobiographique de la mère et du frère, et des rapports entre le roman et la photographie. Le dossier consacré aux providences romanesques voudrait rappeler que les romanciers des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, même s'ils préféraient le plus souvent se confiner dans un registre plutôt profane, ne manquaient pas de retrouver quelquefois les évidences premières d'une vision du monde religieuse quasi unanimement partagée. Ils en accusent du coup certaines inflexions majeures, qui passent notamment de la soumission peu ou prou inconditionnelle de l'âge classique aux volontés du Ciel à des interrogations plus exigeantes diversement liées aux Lumières et à leur nouveau droit au bonheur. Aristote met le personnage héroïque au coeur de la tragédie, par l'identification psychologique du spectateur avec le protagoniste - être noble mais faillible. Racine, traducteur de la Poétique, met en scène, suivant Euripide, plusieurs héros au féminin qui attirent jusqu'à nos jours, l'attention des publics comme des spécialistes. Sont examinées dans ce dernier dossier : les héroïnes d'un élève persan de Molière ; celles de Racine, et de ses prédecesseurs ; l'héroïne Jeanne d'Arc à la scène ; les héroïnes d'opéra comique au XIXe siècle ; et celles du théâtre contemporain expérimental d'Hélène Cixous.

French literature --- Religion in literature --- Courage in females --- Females in literature --- Courage in literature --- Feminism and theater --- Simenon, Georges, - 1903-1989

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Concentrating on female modernists specifically, this volume examines spiritual issues and their connections to gender during the modernist period. Scholarly inquiry surrounding women writers and their relation to what Wassily Kandinsky famously hoped would be an ‘Epoch of the Great Spiritual’ has generated myriad contexts for closer analysis including: feminist theology, literary and religious history, psychoanalysis, queer and trauma theory. This book considers canonical authors such as Virginia Woolf while also attending to critically overlooked or poorly understood figures such as H.D., Mary Butts, Rose Macaulay, Evelyn Underhill, Christopher St. John and Dion Fortune. With wide-ranging topics such as the formally innovative poetry of Stevie Smith and Hope Mirrlees to Evelyn Underhill’s mystical treatises and correspondence, this collection of essays aims to grant voices to the mostly forgotten female voices of the modernist period, showing how spirituality played a vital role in their lives and writing.  .

Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Women authors. --- English literature --- Religion in literature --- Spirituality in literature --- Littérature anglaise --- Religion dans la littérature --- Spiritualité dans la littérature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Congresses. --- Ecrivaines --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- Spirituality. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- 248-055.2 --- 248-055.2 Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Conferences - Meetings --- 1900-1999