Spring 1989, Vol. 38, No. 3
Articles
Writing God's Story: Self and Narrative Structure in Augustine's Confessions
LAWRENCE BYRNE 15
DeQuincey's Confessions: A Strategy for Salvation
MARY ANN K. DAVIS 33
The Uncompromising Truth of Billy Bud: Its Miraculous Climax
JOHN HARMON MCELROY 47
Dialogue
Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Beauty of Form
ANTHONY LOW 5
Book Reviews
Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark: An ABC Theologized
W. Dale Brown 63
David Patterson, The Affirming Flame: Religion, Language, Literature
NORMAN R. CARY 64
Kathryn L. Lynch, The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form
ANNE EGGEBROTEN 67
Phoebe S. Spinrad, The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage
JAMES M. GIBSON 69
George Sayer, Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times
DABNEY HART 70
Gene Koppel, The Religious Dimension of Jane Austen's Novels
JOHN C. HAWLEY, S.J. 72
David S. Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
DONALD R. HETTINGA 73
Rene Girard, Trans. by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
WILLIAM JENKINS 74
Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
RODERICK T. LEUPP 77
Scott Donaldson, John Cheever: A Biography
RODERICK T. LEUPP 78
Debora K. Shuger, Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance
ANTHONY LOW 79
Lawrence Dorr, A Slight Momentary Affliction
GLENN MEETER 81
Alzina Stone Dale, T.S. Eliot: The Philosopher Poet
PETER MILWARD, S.J. 83
S.L. Varnado, Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction
PAUL W. NISLY 84
Alfred Alcorn, Vestments
RALPH ST. LOUIS 85
Karol Wojtyla, The Collected Plays and Writings on the Theatre
GARY D. SCHMIDT 87
Samuel B. Southwell, Kenneth Burke and Martin Heidegger: With a Note Against Deconstruction
CLARENCE WALHOUT 89
James W. Woelfel, Albert Camus on the Sacred and the Secular
PATRICIA A. WARD 90
Poetry
It's Least Things Lightly Toil
THARIN WILLIAMSON 13
because
WILLIAM FANNING
Teleological
ELVA MCALLASTER 32
Parousia: The ghosts in the closet
LUCI SHAW 45
August Anniversaries
CHARLES CANTALUPO 46
Blue Bus
BERNICE LARSON WEBB 92
Road to the Oregon coast
LUCI SHAW 93