It's hard to talk about Medieval/Renaissance literature without talking
about Christian religion -- I think -- and, yes, Islam and Judaism as well
as well as relics of preChristian religions.
Bill
At 06:29 PM 4/24/2005, you wrote:
>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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