Emily Dickinson's Approving God: Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering"Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently with no surprise," Keane explores the poet's embattled relationship with the deity of her Calvinist tradition, reflecting on literature and religion, faith and skepticism, theology and science in light of continuing confrontations between Darwinism and design, science and literal conceptions of a divine Creator"--Provided by publisher. |
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... in order to engage other minds struggling with the question confronting Dickinson: “the co-presence of God with unspeakable and unwarranted suffering.” A Note on Dickinson Texts L (cited parenthetically) refers to xii Acknowledgments.
... in order to engage other minds struggling with the question confronting Dickinson: “the co-presence of God with unspeakable and unwarranted suffering.” A Note on Dickinson Texts L (cited parenthetically) refers to xii Acknowledgments.
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... cited throughout (parenthetically) by poem rather than page number. My citations refer to the numbers assigned by ... cite The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition,ed. R. W. Franklin, 3 vols. (Harvard University Press, 1998) ...
... cited throughout (parenthetically) by poem rather than page number. My citations refer to the numbers assigned by ... cite The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition,ed. R. W. Franklin, 3 vols. (Harvard University Press, 1998) ...
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... citing the final lines of this poem, which had begun: I had some things that I called mine— And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities. The property, my garden, Which having sown with care, He ...
... citing the final lines of this poem, which had begun: I had some things that I called mine— And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities. The property, my garden, Which having sown with care, He ...
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... cite as divine sanction for the slaying of the infidel, preferably by decapitation.5 Though none of my respondents mentioned jihadism, comments about the barbarous brutality of the. 5. Assassin is the European name for a member of a ...
... cite as divine sanction for the slaying of the infidel, preferably by decapitation.5 Though none of my respondents mentioned jihadism, comments about the barbarous brutality of the. 5. Assassin is the European name for a member of a ...
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... Citing her “brilliant poem about the ebbing of. 7. The observation occurs in an 1856 journal entry; see Nathaniel Hawthorne, The English Notebooks, 433. 8. Magdalena Zapedowska, “Wrestling with Silence: Emily Dickinson's Calvinist God ...
... Citing her “brilliant poem about the ebbing of. 7. The observation occurs in an 1856 journal entry; see Nathaniel Hawthorne, The English Notebooks, 433. 8. Magdalena Zapedowska, “Wrestling with Silence: Emily Dickinson's Calvinist God ...
Contents
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Part II | 105 |
MultiPerspectivism in Interpretation | 205 |
Derek Mahons A Disused Shed in Co Wexford | 215 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index of First Lines | 237 |
General Index | 241 |
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