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Christianity and literature --- 82:2 --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- Literatuur en godsdienst --- 82:2 Literatuur en godsdienst

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Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China contributes to the “literary turn” in the study of Chinese Christianity by foregrounding the importance of literary texts, including the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods. These multifarious types of texts demonstrated the multiple representations and dynamic scenes of Christianity, where Christian imageries and symbolism were transformed by linguistic manipulation into new contextualized forms which nurtured distinctive new fruits of literature and modernized the literary landscape of Chinese literature. The study of the composition and poetics of Chinese Christian literary works helps us rediscover the concerns, priorities, textual strategies of the Christian writers, the cross-cultural challenges involved, and the reception of the Bible.

Christian literature. --- Christianity and literature --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- Christian writings --- Religious literature --- China --- Church history.

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Rond het thema 'Literatuur en christendom' heeft Hans van Stralen zeer diverse essays geschreven die zijn geïnspireerd op het gelijknamige college dat hij al enige jaren aan de Universiteit Utrecht geeft. In talloze literaire teksten is de relatie met christelijke thema's direct duidelijk (men denke bijvoorbeeld aan Phèdre, de jansenistische tragedie van Jean Racine). Maar na 1945 zijn de verbanden meer verborgen, zoals in het werk van Hugo Claus en Albert Camus. Omdat we in een postchristelijke maatschappij leven, is het zinvol niet alleen deze sluimerende maar ook de evidente connecties zichtbaar te maken. Voorts heeft de auteur theoretische beschouwingen gewijd aan de verhouding tussen christelijke en literaire teksten en aan de verbanden tussen het gebed en het gedicht. Daarnaast behandelt zijn boek de bekering, de apologie en de erfzonde in de literatuur.

Christian religion --- Comparative literature --- Christelijke godsdienst --- Vergelijkende letterkunde --- Christianity and literature --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature

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Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing. This tradition - which Scott Paul Gordon locates in seventeenth-century religious discourse, in early eighteenth-century moral philosophy, in mid eighteenth-century acting theory, and in the emergent novel - resists autonomy and defers agency from the individual to an external 'prompter'. Gordon argues that the trope of passivity aims to guarantee a disinterested self in a culture that was increasingly convinced that every deliberate action involves calculating one's own interest. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas from their roots in the non-conformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.

English literature --- Passivity (Psychology) in literature. --- Christianity and literature --- Ethics in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Arts and Humanities

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The book explores the preoccupation of key twentieth-century English writers with theology and sexuality and how the Anglican Church has responded and continues to respond to the issue of homosexuality. Analysing the work of Oscar Wilde, E. F. Benson, Edward Carpenter, Jeanette Winterson, and Alan Hollingshurst, the book explores the literary tradition of exasperation at the church's obduracy against homosexuality.

English fiction --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Christianity and literature --- Homosexuality --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Anglican Communion.