ISBN:
9781531501754
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
,
1 b/w illustration
Year of publication:
2022
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions in literature
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Christianity and other religions Judaism
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Judaism in literature
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Judaism Relations
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Christianity
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
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Borders
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Christianity
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Holy Envy
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Holy Insecurity
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Interfaith relations
;
Judaism
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Literature
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Poetry
Abstract:
What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . .” (Amos Oz, Judas)Among the great social shifts of the post–World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations. We read each other’s scriptures and openly discuss differences as well as similarities. Yet many such encounters have become rote and predictable. Powerful emotions stirred up by these conversations are often dismissed or ignored. Demonstrating how such emotions as shame, envy, and desire can inform these encounters, Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone charts a new way of thinking about interreligious relations. Moreover, by focusing on modern and contemporary writers (novelists and poets) who traffic in the volatile space between Judaism and Christianity, the book calls attention to the creative implications of these intense encounters.While recognizing a long-overdue need to address a fundamentally Christian narrative underwriting twentieth century American verse, Holy Envy does more than represent Christianity as an aesthetically coercive force, or as an adversarial other. For the book also suggests how literature can excavate an alternative interreligious space, at once risky and generative. In bringing together recent accounts of Jewish Christian relations, affect theory, and poetics, Holy Envy offers new ways into difficult and urgent, conversations about interreligious encounters.Holy Envy is sure to engage readers who are interested in literature, religion, and, above all, interfaith dialogue
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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1 Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone
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2 Lives of the Saints: Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein
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3 Hiding in Plain Sight: Louis Zukofsky, Shame, and the Sorrows of Yiddish
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4 Unholy Envy: Karl Shapiro and the Problem of “Judeo-Christianity”
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5 The Certainty of Wings: Denise Levertov and the Legacy of Her Hebrew-Christian Father
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6 Coda: Holy Insecurity
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781531501754
URL:
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