Dissent and Marginality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Figuring Trouble: Elijah’s Marginality and an Interpreter’s Dilemma

   • Jan William Tarlin

   Pages 1-10

3. The Kierkegaard Brothers: Contrary Responses to Ecclesial Teaching and Authority

   • David A. Hart

   Pages 11-16

4. Friends on the Fringe: A Further Assessment of Nude Prophesying in Early Quakerism

   • Jacques Tual

   Pages 17-28

5. The Apocalypse of the Spirit

   • Thomas J. J. Altizer

   Pages 29-44

6. ‘Outing’ the Hidden Other: Stranger-Women in the Work of Toni Morrison

   • Susan G. Cumings

   Pages 45-57

7. Double Marginality and Compassion: Literary Responses to AIDS and the Name of Love

   • Stephen Happel

   Pages 58-79

8. ‘When Egypt’s slain, I say, let Miriam sing!’: Women, Dissent and Marginality

   • Elisabeth Jay

   Pages 80-101

9. Boundaries and Marginality in Willa Cather’s Frontier Fiction

   • Conrad Ostwalt

   Pages 102-114

10. Centre Shouts and Peripheral Echoes: Reading Literature for Voices of Choice and Change

    • Mark Ledbetter

    Pages 115-125

11. Excessive Children: Textual Filiation and the Command of the Other

    • D. C. Teel

    Pages 126-150

12. ‘A Tree, of Mary, One’: The Child on the Margins of Byatt’s Gardens

    • J. Stephen Fountain

    Pages 151-162

13. Travel as Metaphor: Unmargined Realities

    • Ihab Hassan

    Pages 163-178

14. Back Matter

    Pages 179-182

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Twelve essays responding to the proposed title, 'Dissent and Marginality', each with a specific perspective and solid research, are brought together here. The collection incorporates the historical and contemporary dimensions, tracing back religious, philosophical or social dissent in our history and addressing the issue of race, gender, sexuality and other forms of marginalization of our postmodern times. It offers a train of fine reading to theologians, literary, cultural or social critics and historians.

• apocalypse
• English literature
• essay
• fiction
• gender
• history
• history of literature
• interpret
• Interpreter
• Kierkegaard
• literature
• metaphor
• philosophy
• women

• Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow, UK

  Kiyoshi Tsuchiya

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