Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
On Reader Responsibility: An Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Some Dilemmas of an Ethics of Literature....Pages 15-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Only Irresponsible People would go into the Desert for Forty Days: Jim Crace’s Quarantine Or the Diary of another Madman....Pages 35-44
The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Rhetoricizing the Foundations....Pages 45-62
Samuel Beckett’s Use of the Bible and the Responsibility of the Reader....Pages 63-72
On Trial: Mikhail Bakhtin and Abram Tertz’s Address to “God”....Pages 73-80
Bible and Ethics: Moral Formation and Analogical Imagination....Pages 81-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
The Playwright, the Novelist, and the Comedian: A Case Study in Audience Responsibility....Pages 103-118
Dialogue in Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule or the Reader as Truth-Seeker....Pages 119-145
Responsibly Performing Vulnerability: Salman Rushdie’s Fury and Edgar Laurence Doctorow’s City of God....Pages 147-172
The “Indian” Character of Modern Hindi Drama: Neo-Sanskritic, Pro-Western Naturalistic, or Nativistic Dramas?....Pages 173-183
Film and Apocryphal Imitation of the Feminine—Judith of Bethulia....Pages 184-198
Revolting Fantasies: Reviewing the Cinematic Image as Fruitful Ground for Creative, Theological Interpretations in the Company of Julia Kristeva....Pages 199-214
Literature as Resistance: Hannah Arendt on Storytelling....Pages 215-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-240