ENGL 40107 - Religion and Literature

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

A consideration of the forms, ideas, and preoccupations of the religious imagination in literature and of the historical relationships between religious faith and traditions and particular literary works. The conflicts and tensions between modern Gnosticism, in literature and ideology, and the sacramental imagination will constitute a recurring point of focus. We will also lend special attention to the vision and imagery of the journey and wayfarer, and the conflicts and affinities between private and communal expressions of faith. Readings will be selected from the following: criticism by Tolstoy, T.S. Eliot, John Gardner, Flannery O'Connor, Hillis Miller, Elie Wiesel, Martha Nussbaum, Wayne Booth, George Steiner and others on the relations among ethics, religion and literature; selections from the Bible, Dante, and saints' lives; Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest; Roth, Job; Kazantzakis, Saint Francis; Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor; DeVries, The Blood of the Lamb; Greene, The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair; Wiesel, Night; Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment; Emerson, Sermon on the Lord's Supper; selected O'Connor short stories or The Violent Bear It Away; selected Updike short stories and criticism; Weil, Waiting for God; Singer, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories; Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest; Bergman (director), The Seventh Seal; Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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