Table of Contents for
Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory, edited by Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Trauma and Transcendence: An Introduction | Holly Faith Nelson
The Classical and Biblical Inheritance
Sacred Proposals and the Spiritual Sublime | David Lyle Jeffrey
Medieval Visions and Dreams
“Loke in: How weet a wounde is here!”: The Wounds of Christ as a Sacred Space in English Devotional Literature | Eleanor McCullough
Suffering in the Service of Venus: The Sacred, the Sublime, and Chaucerian Joy in the Middle Part of the Parliament of Fowls | Norm Klassen
Shakespearean Horror
Listening to Lavinia: Emmanuel Levinas’s Saying and Said in Titus Andronicus | Sean Lawrence
Precious Stories: The Discursive Economy in Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece | Heather G.S. Johnson
Metaphysical Afflictions
The Sacred Pain of Penitence: The Theology of John Donne’s Holy Sonnets | David Anonby
Bearing the Cross: The Christian's Response to Suffering in Herbert’s The Temple | Daniel W. Doerksen
The Ethical Romantic Sublime
Horrific Suffering, Sacred Terror, and Sublime Freedom in Helen Maria Williams’s Peru | Natasha Duquette
Joanna Baillie and the Christian Gothic: Reforming Society through the Sublime | Christine A. Colón
Suffering and Sacrament in the Nineteenth Century
Sacramental Suffering and the Waters of Redemption and Transformation in George Eliot’s Fiction | Constance M. Fulmer
Christina Rossetti and the Poetics of Tractarian Suffering | Esther T. Hu
Suffering in Word and in Truth: Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century Quaker Women’s Autobiography | Robynne Rogers Healey
Sacred Modernism(s)
Sacramental Imagination: Eucharists of the Ordinary Universe in the Works of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf | Richard Kearney
The Via Negativa in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India | George Piggford
The Fellowship of Suffering and Hope in Fantasy Literature
Consolation in Un/certainty: The Sacred Spaces of Suffering in the Children’s Fantasy Literature of George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L’Engle | Monika Hilder
The Messiah of History: The Search for Synchronicity in Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz | Deanna T. Smid
Violation and Redemption in Canadian Fiction
Suffering and the Sacred: Hugh Hood’s The New Age / Le nouveau siécle | Barbara Pell
Fictional Violations in Alice Munro’s Narratives | John C. Van Rys
The American Sublime
Thomas Merton and the Aesthetics of the Sublime: A Beautiful Terror | Lynn R. Szabo
Belated Beloved: Time, Trauma, and the Sublime in Toni Morrison’s Beloved | Steve Vine
Annie Dillard on Holy Ground: The Artist as Nun in the Postmodern Sublime | Deborah Bowen
Japanese (Re)Visioning of the Suffering Christ
Passion Plays by Proxy: The Paschal Face as Interculturality in Endô Shûsaku and Mishima Yukio | Sean Somers
Postmodern Aesthetics and Beyond
Testifying to the Infinity of the Other: The Sacred and Ethical Dimensions of Secondary Witnessing in Anne Karpf’s The War After | Bettina Stumm
Sacred Space and the Fellowship of Suffering in the Postmodern Sublime | Richard J. Lane
Suffering Divine Things: Cruciform Reasoning or Incarnational Hermeneutics | Jens Zimmermann
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
