W. Travis Helms 
Blowing Clover, Falling Rain [EPUB ebook] 
A Theological Commentary on the Poetic Canon of the American Religion

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The field of theopoetics explores the ways in which we ‘make God’ (present)–particularly through language. This book explores questions of theopoetics as they relate to the central poetry of the American Sublime. It offers a fresh, theological engagement with what literary critic Harold Bloom terms the American religion (transcendentalism: Emerson’s homespun mysticism). Specifically, it seeks to rehabilitate Emerson’s concept of self-reliance from the charge of gross egoism, by situating it in the context of normative mysticisms Eastern and Western. It undertakes a more poetic approach to reading theologically-inflected poetry, by exegeting four poets collectively constituting Bloom’s American religious ‘canon’: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, and Hart Crane. It utilizes a modified version of the ancient fourfold allegorical mode of reading Scripture, to draw out theological dimensions of four quintessential texts (Nature, ‘Song of Myself, ‘ ‘Sunday Morning, ‘ ‘Lachrymae Christi’), in order to offer a more imaginative way of reading imaginative writing. Building on Emerson’s contention, ‘just as there is creative writing, there is creative reading, ‘ and Bloom’s claim, ‘a theory of poetry . . . must be poetry, before it can be of any use in interpreting poems, ‘ it demonstrates the unique, viable ways in which poems are able to ‘do’ theology–and perform or embody theopoetic truths.
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Travis Helms serves as priest to the Episcopal Student Center at the University of Texas. He is also the founder and curator of LOGOS Poetry Collective, a liturgically-inflected reading series that congregates in east Austin. His poetry and essays have appeared in a number of journals, including Book 2.0, North America Review, New Haven Review, and Noesis. He was the inaugural William W. Cook Frost Place Fellow, and winner of the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 232 ● ISBN 9781725258426 ● 文件大小 1.4 MB ● 出版者 Wipf and Stock Publishers ● 市 Eugene ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2020 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7683895 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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