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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... ” and Related Scenarios 107 Chapter 7. Design and Accident 118 Chapter 8. Frost, the Blonde Assassin 132 Chapter 9: Dickinson's Death-Haunted Earthly Paradise 144 Chapter 10. Flowers, and Thoughts Too Deep for Tears 160 Contents.
... ” and Related Scenarios 107 Chapter 7. Design and Accident 118 Chapter 8. Frost, the Blonde Assassin 132 Chapter 9: Dickinson's Death-Haunted Earthly Paradise 144 Chapter 10. Flowers, and Thoughts Too Deep for Tears 160 Contents.
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... death and immortality, innocence and experience) and themes (transience and the yearning for the infinite, loss and compensation, experience transformed by consciousness) locate her in the great Romantic tradition. Yet she only rarely ...
... death and immortality, innocence and experience) and themes (transience and the yearning for the infinite, loss and compensation, experience transformed by consciousness) locate her in the great Romantic tradition. Yet she only rarely ...
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... death. In addition, I meditate on spiritual and cultural life both at present and in Dickinson's work and period in an admittedly engaged and personal voice. Writing at this particular historical moment, amid a national and ...
... death. In addition, I meditate on spiritual and cultural life both at present and in Dickinson's work and period in an admittedly engaged and personal voice. Writing at this particular historical moment, amid a national and ...
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... death”-by-frost. While there is no lyric “I” in the poem, and a seemingly impersonal stance is maintained throughout, perspective is in fact present from the opening and governing word, “Apparently.” In addition, not only are the key ...
... death”-by-frost. While there is no lyric “I” in the poem, and a seemingly impersonal stance is maintained throughout, perspective is in fact present from the opening and governing word, “Apparently.” In addition, not only are the key ...
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... death, and rebirth. That vegetative version of the greater-good argument takes the form, in John 12:24, of Christ's parable of his own death and redemptive resurrection: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains ...
... death, and rebirth. That vegetative version of the greater-good argument takes the form, in John 12:24, of Christ's parable of his own death and redemptive resurrection: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains ...
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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