R&L Back Issues, Vol. 26 to 30

Volume 26.1 (Spring 1994): Special Issue

Dancing at the Altar: American Indian Literature and Spirituality

Essays/Interviews

• Ruwe, Donelle. "Dancing at the Altar: American Indian Literature and Spirituality." Introduction. #318
• Kroeber, Karl."Religion, Literary Art, and the Re-telling of Myth." #319.
• Gustafson, Sandra."Nations of Israelites: Prophecy and Cultural Autonomy in the Writings of William Apess." #320
• Ruwe, Donelle."Weaving Stories for Food: an Interview with Joy Harjo." #322
• Hogan, Linda."A Different Yield." #325
• Allen, Paula Gunn."Glastonbury Experience: Essay." #327
• Friedman, Susan Stanford."Identity Politics, Syncretism, Catholicism, and Anishinabe Religion in Louise Erdrich's Tracks." #329
• Velie, Alan R."The Return of the Native: The Renaissance of Tribal Religions as Reflected in the Fiction of N. Scott Momaday." #330

Creative Writing

• Harjo, Joy. "Reconciliation, A Prayer." #321
• Harjo, Joy. "The Place the Musician Became a Bear on the Streets of a City." #323
• Harjo, Joy. "The Dawn Appears with Butterflies." #324
• Allen, Paula Gunn. "Glastonbury Experience: Poem." #326
• Vizenor, Gerald. "Oshkiwiigan: Heartlines on the Trickster Express." #328

Volume 26.2 (Summer 1994)

Essays

• Franke, William. "Dante's Hermeneutic Rite of Passage: Inferno 9." #331
• Colacurcio, Michael J. "Puritans in Spite." #332
• Wright, Terence R. "The Letter and the Spirit: Deconstructing Renan's Life of Jesus and the Assumptions of Modernity." #333
• Ong, SJ, Walter J. "Mimesis and the Following of Christ." #334

Reviews

• Ostriker, Alicia Suskin. Feminist Revision and the Bible.
• Pardes, Ilana. Countertraditions in the Bible.

• Brown, Robert McAfee. Persuade Us to Rejoice: The Liberating Power of Fiction.
• Harrison, Bernard. Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory.
• Brown, Frank Burch. Religious Aesthetics.

• Bal, Mieke. Reading "Rembrandt": Beyond the Word-Image Opposition.
• Sanford, James H., William R. LaFleur, and Masatoshi Nagatomi, Eds. Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan.
• MacCormack, Sabine. Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru.

Book Notices

• Davis, Robert Con. The Paternal Romance: Reading God-the-Father in Early Western Culture.

• Kyne, SC, Mary Theresa. Country Parsons, Country Priests: George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins as Spiritual Autobiographers.

T. Christopher Bond (#345):
• Flaherty, Gloria. Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century.

• Thorpe, Douglas. A New Earth: The Labor of Language in Pearl, Herbert's Temple, and Blake's Jerusalem.

• Fussel, Edwin Sill. The Catholic Side of Henry James.

Volume 26.3 (Autumn 1994)

Essays

• Vander Weele, Michael. "Mother and Child in Paradiso 27." #348
• Dombrowski, Daniel. "Kazantzakis and the New Middle Ages." #349
• Martin, Karl. "Flannery O'Connor's Prophetic Imagination." #350
• Sulivan, Jean (Joseph Cunneen, Trans.) "Minor Writers/ Authentic Words." #351

Reviews

• Bacon, Jon Lance. Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture
• Johansen, Ruthann Knechel. The Narrative Secret of Flannery O'Connor: The Trickster as Interpreter.
• Di Renzo, Anthony. American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque.

Book Notices

• Ezell, Margaret J.M. Writing Women's Literary History

• Binion, Rudolph. Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth

• Morey, Ann-Janine. Religion and Sexuality in American Literature.

• Humez, Jean M. Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion.

• Caesar, Adrian. Taking It Like a Man: Suffering, Sexuality, and the War Poets: Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Graves.

• Schenker, Daniel. Wyndham Lewis, Religion and Modernism.

• Lundin, Robert. The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World.

Volume 27.1 (Spring 1995): Special Issue

Giving Testimony: African-American Spirituality and Literature

Essays

• Winkiel, Laura A. "Giving Testimony: African-American Spirituality and Literature. An Introduction." #362
• Foster, Frances Smith and Chanta Haywood. "Christian Recordings: Afro-Protestantism, Its Press, and the Production of African American Literature." #363
• Moody, Joycelyn K. "On the Road with God: Travel and Quest in Early Nineteenth-Century African American Holy Women's Narratives." #364
• Brown, S.J., Joseph A. "'I, John, Saw the Holy Number': Apocalyptic Visions in Go Tell It on the Mountain and Native Son." #365
• Henderson, Carol. "Knee Bent, Body Bowed: Re-Memory's Prayer of Spiritual Re(new)al in Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain." #366
• Laura Winkiel. "Self-Reinvention, Spiritual Uplift, and The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X: An Interview With Michael Eric Dyson." #367
• Brown-Hinds, Paulette. "In The Spirit: Dance as Healing Ritual in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow." #368
• Taylor-Guthrie, Danille. "Who Are the Beloved? Old and New Testaments, Old and New Communities of Faith." #369

Volume 27.2 (Summer 1995)

Essays

• Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. "Typology and After: A Taxonomy of Variants." #370
• Webb, Stephen H. "The Rhetoric of and about Excess in William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience." #371
• Giannone, Richard. "Flannery O'Connor Tells Her Desert Story." #372
• Walsh, Harry. "Christian-Pagan Syncretism in Russian "Ruralist" Prose." #373

Reviews

• apRoberts, Ruth. The Biblical Web.
• Ostriker, Alicia Suskin. The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions.

• Vitz, Evelyn Birge. Medieval Narrative and Modern Narratology. Subjects and Objects of Desire.
• Kelly, Douglas. The Art of Medieval French Romance.

• Baker, Denise Nowakowski. Julian of Norwich's Showings: From Vision to Book.
• Staley, Lynn. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions.
• Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda. Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism.

Book Notices

• Krueger, Christine L. The Reader's Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse.

• Staudt, Kathleen Henderson. At the Turn of Civilization: David Jones and Modern Poetics.

• Scott, Jr., Nathan A. Visions of Presence in Modern American Poetry.

• Dyson, Michael Eric. Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X.

Volume 27.3 (Autumn 1995)

Essays

• Kamowski, William. "Saint Erkenwald and the Inadvertent Baptism: An Orthodox Response to Heterdox Ecclesiology." #385
• Bertrand, Didier. "Order and Chaos in Paradise: Colonial and 'Postcolonial' Constructions of Religious Identity through the Robinson Crusoe Story." #386
• Sykes, John. "The Imperious Castaway: Walker Percy on Guilt and the Self." #387
• Haynes, Stephen R. "Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson and Frederick Buechner: A Religious Reading of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany." #388

Reviews

• Carrithers, Jr., Gale H. and James D. Hardy, Jr. Milton and the Hermeneutic Journey.
• Haskin, Dayton. Milton's Burden of Interpretation.
• Lieb, Michael. Milton and the Culture of Violence.
• Rosenblatt, Jason P. Torah and Law in Paradise Lost.

• Jenkins, Ruth Y. Reclaiming Myths of Power: Women Writers and the Victorian Spiritual Crisis.
• Stockton, Kathryn Bond. God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Bronte, and Eliot.

• Paul, Ellen Frankel, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, Eds. Cultural Pluralism and Moral Knowledge.
• Markham, Ian S. Plurality and Christian Ethics.
• Bauman, Zygmunt. Postmodern Ethics.

Book Notices

• Munk, Linda. The Trivial Sublime: Theology and American Poetics.

• Gameson, Richard, Ed. The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use.

Volume 28.1 (Spring 1996)

Essays

• Jasper, David. "The Death and Rebirth of Religious Language." #400
• Goslee, David. "Arnold and the Hero-Worship of Jesus." #401
• Knight, Christopher J. "George Steiner's Religion of Abstraction." #402
• Wise, Christopher. "Qu'ranic Hermeneutics, Sufism, and Le Devoir de Violence: Yambo Ouologuem as Marabout Novelist." #403

Reviews

• Jasper, David. Readings in the Canon of Scripture: Written for our Learning.

• Ong, SJ, Walter S., Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup, Eds. Faith and Contexts. Volume Three. Further Essays, 1952-1990.

• Thompson, E.P. Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law.
• Moskal, Jeanne. Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness.

• Hubbard, Dolan. The Sermon and the African-American Literary Imagination.
• Connor, Kimberly Rae. Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African-American Women.

Book Notices

• Astell, Ann. Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth.

• Richardson, Jr., Robert J. Emerson: The Mind on Fire.

• Singley, Carol J. Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit.

• Lang, Frederick K. Ulysses and the Irish God.

Vol. 28.2-3 (Summ.-Aut. 1996): Special Issue

The Endless Knot: Literature and Religion in Ireland

Essays:

• Murphy, Willa. "The Endless Knot: Literature and Religion in Ireland" (special issue introduction). #414
• Duddy, Tom. "Derrida and the Druids: Writing, Lore and Power in Early Celtic Society." #415
• Eagleton, Terry. "The Irish Sublime." #417
• O'Dushlaine, Tadgh. "Going for Baroque: The Irish Spiritual Reformation 1600-1800." #419
• Spence, Joseph. "Allegories for a Protestant Nation: Irish Tory Historical Fiction, 1820-1850." #421
• Mc Cormack, W.J. "The 'Plymouth' Brethren? Prolegomena to the Re writing of J.M. Synge's Biography." #423
• Welch, Robert. "Sacrament and Significance: Some Reflections on Religion and the Irish." #425
• Vance, Norman. "Catholic and Protestant Literary Visions of 'Ulster': Now You See It, Now You Don't." #427
• Hughes, Eamonn. "'Town of Shadows': Representations of Belfast in Recent Fiction." #428
• McCartney, Anne. "'The Impact of Reality:' Francis Stuart's Narrative Theology." #430

Creative Writing

• Wheatley, David. "Three Supernatural Lyrics." #416
• Dorgan, Theo. "The High Salt Graveyard," "The Inquisitor Considers the Daughters of Eve." #418
• Morrissey, Sinead. "Restoration" #420
• Bourke, Eva. Selections from "To the Distributor of Souls." #422
• Miller, Aine. "Ark in a Belfast Suburb," "Grey Area," "Hereafter." #424
• Titley, Alan. "Parables." #426
• O'Donoghue, Bernard. "A Sin of My Present Life," "Clara," "A Fool at Doon Bridge." #429

Vol. 29.1 (Spring 1997)

Essays

• Reed, Walter L. "Soul-Making : Art, Therapy and Theology in Keats, Hillman and Bakhtin." #431
• Keshavarz, Fatemeh. "The Call to Prayer from the Cypress Tree: Modernity and Redefining the Spiritual in Persian Poetry." #432
• Friedman, Maurice. "Paul Celan and Martin Buber: The Poetics of Dialogue and the Eclipse of God." #433
• Brown, Peter C. "Negative Capability and the Mystery of Hope in Malamud's 'The First Seven Years.'" #434

Reviews

• Clark, J.C.D. Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Literature from the Restoration to Romanticism
• Pittock, Murray G.H. Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
• Davie, Donald. The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England

• Lamb, Jonathan.The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century.

• Robinson, David M. Emerson and the Conduct of Life: Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work
• Makarushka, Irena S.M. Religious Imagination and Language in Emerson and Nietzsche
• Roberson, Susan L. Emerson in his Sermons: A Man-Made Self

Book Notices

• Baswell, Christopher. Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer

• Werman, Golda. Milton and Midrash

• Barbour, John D. Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith

Vol. 29.2 (Summer 1997)

Essays

• Capps, Donald. "Irony and Metaphor in Newman's Apologia." #445
• Zornado, Joseph L. "A Becoming Habit: Flannery O'Connor's Fiction of Unknowing." #446
• Danow, David. "Epiphany and Apocalypse in Holocaust Writing: Aharon Appelfeld." #447

Reviews

• Stern, David. Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies.

• Slade, Carole. St. Theresa of Avila: Author of a Heroic Life.

• Goodhart, Sandor. Sacrificing Commentary: Reading the End of Literature.
• Jeffrey, David Lyle. People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture.

Notices

• Behler, Ernst. German Romantic Literary Theory.

• Oberhaus, Dorothy Huff. Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method and Meaning.

• Ben-Joseph, Eli. Aesthetic Persuasion: Henry James, The Jews, and Race.

• Pearce, Joseph. Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G. K. Chesterton.

• Korg, Jacob. Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry.

Index

• Ceeley, Zan, with Julie Bixler. "Index to Religion and Literature Vols. 18-28 Inclusive." #457

Volume 29.3 (Autumn 1997)

Articles

• Stockard, Emily. "'Transposed to Form and Dignity': Christian Folly and the Subversion of Hierarchy in A Midsummer Nights' Dream." #458
• Randall, Catherine. "The Protestant's Progress: Reading Reformed Travel Literature in Early Modern France." #459
• Shankman, Steven. "Participation and Reflective Distance: The End of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and the Resistance to Doctrine." #460

Reviews

• Flynn, Dennis. John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility.

• Carr, Thomas K. Newman and Gadamer: Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge.
• Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. Two Poets of the Oxford Movement: John Keble and John Henry Newman.
• Goslee, David. Romanticism and the Anglican Newman.

• Ouaknin, Marc-Alain (Llewellyn Brown, trans.) The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud.

• Detweiler, Robert. Breaking The Fall: Religious Readings Of Contemporary Fiction.
• ---. Uncivil Rites: American Fiction, Religion, And The Public Sphere.

Book Notices

• Williams, David. Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Medieval Thought and Literature.

• Johnson, Alonzo, and Paul Jerslid. Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down: African American Religion in the South.

• Joy, Morny, ed. Paul Ricoeur and Narrative: Context and Contestation.

• Ingraffia, Brian D. Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow.

Volume 30.1 (Spring 1998)

Articles

• Jasper, David: "The Twenty-Third Psalm in English Literature"
• Raffel, Burton. "Shakespeare and the Catholic Question"
• Weinfield, Henry: "The Noble Epicureans: Variations on a Buried Theme (Dante and Wordsworth)"
• Funda, Evelyn. "Telling A Community's Story: The Epiphanies of Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock"

Reviews

• Felstiner, John. Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Gadamer on Celan: "Who Am I and Who Are You?" And other Essays
• Wolosky, Shira. Language Mysticism: The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan

• Miller, David G. The Word Made Flesh: The Failure and Redemption of Metaphor in Edward Taylor's Christographia,
• Conforti, Joseph. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture
• Gura, Philip F. The Crossroads of American History and Literature

• The Bible and Culture Collective's Postmodern Bible

• Burkhart, Louise M. Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico

Volume 30.2 (Summer 1998)

Articles

• Low, Anthony: "Privacy, Community,and Society: Confession As A Cultural Indicator In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
• Raiger, Michael: "Sidney's Defense of Plato"
• Schiefelbein, Michael: "The Lessons Of True Religion": Mary Shelley's Tribute To Catholicism in Valperga"
• Gude, Mary Louise: "J.K. Huysmans, Louis Massignon, and The Language Of Mysticism"

Reviews

• Daniel E. Ritchie. Reconstructing Literature in an Ideological Age: A Biblical Poetics and Literary Studies from Milton to Burke
• Ed. Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier. Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688
• Hilary Hinds. God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism

• Richard Mallette. Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England
• P.M. Oliver. Donne's Religious Writing: A Discourse of Feigned Devotion

• Marc Michael Epstein. Dreams Of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art And Literature

• David Aberbach. Revolutionary Hebrew: Empire and Crisis: Four Peaks in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Survival

• Gail Porter Mandell. Madeleva: A Biography

• Peter Iver Kaufman. Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection

• Simon P. Sibelman. Silence in the Novels of Elie Wiesel

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Volume 30.3 (Autumn 1998): Special Issue

Jewish Diasporism: The Aesthetics of Ambivalence

Articles

• Omer, Ranen: "Jewish Diasporism: The Aesthetics of Ambivalence"
• Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven: "Israel and Jewish Writing: The Next Fifty Years"
• Mann, Barbara: "Toward an Understanding of Jewish Imagism"
• Morris, Leslie: "Mutterland/Niemandsland: Diaspora and Displacement in the Poetry of Rose Auslander"
• Fredman, Stephen: "Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling: The Hasid and the Mitnaged"
• Lehmann, Sophia: "Exodus and Homeland: The Representation of Israel in Saul Bellow's To Jerusalem and Back and Philip Roth's Operation Shylock"
• Finkelstein, Norman: "Looking for the Way: The Poetry of Harvey Shapiro"
• McGraw, Eliza Russi Lowen: "Alone But Not Lonesome": Jewishness in Robert Penn Warren's Flood"
• Potok, Rena: "The Wandering Jew and the Irishman: Paradigm Shifts and the Influence of James Joyce in Modern Israeli Fiction"

Poetry

• Max Westler
• Susan Dickman
• Henry Weinfield
• Kathryn Hellerstein
• Nancy Shiffrin
• Norman Finkelstein
• Karen Alkalay-Gut
• Miron Bialoszewski