The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Autumn 1994, Vol. 44, No. 1

Articles
The Bible in Jane Eyre
CATHERINE BROWN TKACZ     3

Sexuality and Mysticism in the Poetry of William Everson
ROSS LABRIE     29

Face to Face: Samuel Beckett and Vaclav Havel
PHYLLIS CAREY     43

Dialogue
Comedy and Christianity: Surveying the Ground
PEGGY THOMPSON     59

Through a Glas Darkly: Derrida, Literature, and the Specter of Christianity
TERRY R. WRIGHT

Book Reviews
Richard Kay, Dante's Christian Astrology
CHAUNCEY WOOD     93

Roy Battenhouse, ed., Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary
JOHN D. COX     95

John T. Shawcross, John Milton: The Self and the World
ANTHONY LOW     98

Isaiah Berlin, The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism
ELIZABETH POWERS     99

Patricia Demers, Heaven Upon Earth: The Form of Moral and Religious Children's Literature to 1850
Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., Moral Instruction and Fiction for Children
GARY D. SCHMIDT     102

Rolland Hein, George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker
LARRY E. FINK     105

Michael E. Allsopp and David Anthony Downes, eds., Saving Beauty: Further Studies in Hopkins
STEVEN C. WALKER     108

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision: Against the Modern Failure of Nerve
ANTHONY RIZZUTO     109

Paula J. Carlson and Peter S. Hawkins, eds., Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith
FAYE P. WHITAKER     111

Theodore P. Fraser, The Modern Catholic Novel in Europe
GERALD J. RUSSELLO     113

Luci Shaw, Writing the River: Poems
JANET MCCANN     115

Charles H. Lippy, Being Religious American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States
CHARLES TIMOTHY SUMMERLIN     117

Poetry
Beyond Belief
IDA FASEL     28

Probable Loss
JOAN F. PETERSON     58

The Things He Carried
TIM BASCOM     120

News
ELVA MCALLASTER     124

Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)

In the Latest Issue of Christianity & Literature:


Night Reading

Franz Wright

Lights coming on
   in windows;
windows lit all
   night long
suddenly dark --

He seems to sleep,
   head nested
in crossed arms
on the desk,
   as he listens

to the first raindrops
striking the window,
the faint roar
   of aircraft just

vanishing with
   moonlit trail
past the horizon,
the underlined phrase.

      Summer 2009