Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility

GAYE WILLIAMS ORTIZ is Professor of Communication Studies, Augusta State University, USA. CLARA A.B. JOSEPH is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada.

On Reader Responsibility: An Introduction; C.A.B.Joseph & G.W.Ortiz A Theory of Ethical Reading Some Dilemmas of an Ethics of Literature; L.K.Altes Reading and the Biblical Only Irresponsible People Would Go into the Desert for Forty Days: Jim Crace's Quarantine or The Diary of Another Madman; D.Jasper The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Rhetoricizing the Foundations; R.J.Hurley Samuel Beckett's Use of the Bible and the Responsibility of the Reader; S.Athanasopoulou-Kypriou On Trial: Mikhail Bakhtin and Abram Tertz's Address to 'God'; L.Owens Bible and Ethics: Moral Formation and Analogical Imagination; J.Nissen Reading and the Literary The Playwright, the Novelist, and the Comedian: A Case Study in Audience Responsibility; D.Visser Dialogue in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule or the Reader as Truth-Seeker; C.A.B.Joseph Responsibly Performing Vulnerability: Salman Rushdie's Fury and Edgar Laurence Doctorow's City of God; E.Borgman The "Indian" Character of Modern Hindi Drama: Neo-Sanskritic, Pro-Western Naturalistic, or Natavistic Dramas?; D.Dimitrova Apocryphal Imitation of the Feminine - Judith of Bethulia ; E.Philpot Revolting Fantasies: Reviewing the Cinematic Image as Fruitful Ground for Creative Theological Interpretations in the Company of Julia Kristeva; A.Jasper Literature as Resistance: Hannah Arendt on Storytelling; D.De Schutter