The Discerning Reader: Christian Perspectives on Literature and Theory

Basingstoke believe Bible Bible as literature Blake C. S. Lewis Cambridge canon century chapter Christ Christian Christian criticism Christian readers church claim concept creation Crying of Lot culture D. H. Lawrence deconstruction discerning discourse divine English epic essay example experience faith female feminism feminist literary criticism fiction genre God's gospel Handmaid's Tale Hardy Hardy's heaven human Ibid idea imagination individual interpretation interpretive communities Jesus Jude King Lear language Lear literary approach literary criticism London Macmillan male Margaret Atwood meaning metanarrative Milton modern moral narrative nature notion novel Oedipa Offred Offred's Oxford Paradise Lost play poem poetry poets political position postmodern question reading religion religious Richard Romantic Scripture secular sense Shakespeare social spirit story suggest T. S. Eliot Testament theodicy theology things thought tion tradition Tristero truth University Press Valentine Cunningham Watts women words writing York