Religion & Literature is a scholarly journal housed in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame that publishes high-quality, innovative work exploring the relations between two crucial human concerns: the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language. We publish three substantial issues per year which include five to six articles of up to 10,000 words, numerous book reviews, and once-to-twice-yearly forums dedicated to focused topics in religion and literature; we also publish special issues edited by leading scholars. The journal began publication in 1984, succeeding NDEJ: A Journal of Religion in Literature (1977-1984). As an early editor remarked, the journal is determined to provide a usable, protean space for wide-ranging discussions of the many ways in which religion and literature are implicated in and shaped by each other. We welcome any scholarly approach provided authors are willing to consider religion not simply as cultural artif
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Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
Timothy Brennan
On February 2, 1977, Palestinian poet Rashid Hussein died in his New York apartment. Hussein had been born forty-one years earlier in Musmus, a town not far from Nazareth. Politics for Hussein, Edward Said remembered, “lost its impersonality and its cruel demagogic spirit.” Hussein, Said wrote of his dear friend, “simply asked that you remember the search for real answers, and never give it up, never be seduced by mere arrangements.” Sharply critical of his own society and its rulers he had a map of the Middle East on his wall with “thought forbidden here” scrawled across it in Arabic Hussein was also a partisan of the Third World. “I am from Asia,” he pronounced in an early poem, “The l
Longtime KSAS English professor made deconstruction more widely accessible
Image caption: J. Hillis Miller
Credit: JEREMY MARYOTT Feb 23, 2021
J. Hillis Miller, among the most distinguished literary critics and theorists and a 19-year professor in the Krieger School s Department of English, died February 7 at his home in Sedgwick, Maine. He was 92.
Part of the Yale School of the literary deconstruction movement, Miller helped revolutionize the study of literature. In dozens of books, he shaped ideas about rhetoric and fiction, literature and ethics, and the ways that texts can and cannot say what they mean.
Critics of deconstruction which held that words and texts only have meaning in relation to other words and texts worried about the implications of the premise that texts had no inherent meaning. In contrast, Miller maintained that rather than stripping texts of purpose, the interpretation freed readers to experience all possible meanings, making literature a place of joy.
For the year, bookstore sales were down 28%, thanks to COVID-19. In other news, books by minister Ravi Zacharias are removed from print because of a scandal, and an influential literary theorist born in Newport News has died.
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