Oddly Jackson and Marotti focus on the ethical aspects of the "religious
turn" to the exclusion of the political. Terry Eagleton has gone back to his
Catholic roots to salvage Marxist theory with Aristotle and Aquinas. Alain
Badiou has gone to St. Paul for a new militant figure. Likewise, Slavoj
Zizek wants a "materialist fundamentalism" and goes to Lenin, Lacan, St.
Paul and G. K. Chesterton. Stanley Fish, who predicted the "religious turn"
as well, keeps gleefully dancing on the enlightenment corpse of liberal
pluralism, and Jurgen Habermas is making common cause with Benedict XVI to
save it. Fascinating time. -Dan Knauss
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Seanger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 1:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Momentum? Trajectory?
>
>
> I got that article and read it -- it's very interesting. Of
> course, I couldn't help notice that Jackson and Marotti's
> touted "Turn to Religion" sounds remarkably appropriate to
> our own post-9/11 zeitgeist, with "The Passion of the
> Christ", God on the cover of Newsweek with some frequency,
> etc. Of course, I think Marotti and Jackson have a point --
> my own criticism addresses pious literature, because I think
> it's very interesting. But another thing that strikes me is
> that J and M's notion of where we are going seems remarkably
> different to Harry's. And neither stance attaches itself to
> a marketable banner headline -- it seems as if we refer to
> what we do as New Historicism, almost by default (apres la lettre?).
>
> Michael
>
> Bryan John Lowrance wrote:
>
> >Dear Michael,
> >
> >An interesting article for this is Ken Jackson and Arthur F.
> Marotti,
> >"The Turn to Religion in Early Modern Studies," Criticism,
> vol, 46, n.
> >1. (Winter 2004) pp. 167-90. It provides good bibliography and
> >overview of a lot of recent scholarship as well as providing some
> >interesting theoretical analysis. If your school subscribes
> to Project
> >Muse, it's available on that.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Bryan Lowrance.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Dear All,
> >>
> >>I'm just finishing up a project with a student on her way to grad
> >>school, and the idea is to get her oriented on graduate study
> >>(literary studies generally, and English Renaissance in
> particular).
> >>She asked an interesting question yesterday, which was,
> where are we
> >>currently? When I was at her stage in 1992, we all had a
> pretty clear
> >>idea of where the momentum was in literary scholarship, even though
> >>there were clearly differing schools and opinions -- all
> scholarship
> >>seemed to be positioned in one way or another with regard
> to the New
> >>Historicism. So I thought I'd turn the question out to the
> group: Is
> >>there a collective sense that we are operating in a
> particular phase
> >>of criticism -- either as Spenserians, Sidneyans, or more generally?
> >>
> >>All the best,
> >>
> >>Michael
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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