Reading

DARKNESS AND LIGHT
Turner, Denys. The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism. Cambridge, New York & Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

DESIRE
Freud, Sigmund. Check anthologies of theory.

Lacan, Jacques. Check anthologies of theory.

Robert Hass. 'Meditation at Lagunitas' In monographs and many anthologies.

ENCLOSURES:
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.

Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London & New York: Routledge, 1993.

THE GAZE
Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." In Feminism and Film Theory, edited by Constance Penley. New York & London: Routledge & BFI Publishing, 1988.

INTERTEXTUALITY/ALLUSION
Kronfeld, Chana. On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1993.

Ben-Porat, Ziva. "The Poetics of Allusion." University of California, 1973.

Ben-Porat, Ziva. "The Poetics of Literary Allusion." PTL: A Journal of Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 1, no. 1 (1976): 105-28.

LIMINAL ZONES
Bridges, William. The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments. Cambridge Mass: Perseus, 2001.

Eliade, Mircea. Rites and Symbols of Initiation. New York: Harper & Row, 1958.
(Schreiter 1-9)

Trubshaw, Bob. The Metaphors and Rituals of Place and Time- An Introduction to Liminality or Why Christopher Robin Wouldn't Walk on the Cracks [Web-site]. Available from http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/liminal/htm.

Turner, Victor. "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites of Passage." In The Forest of Symbols. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.

Turner, Victor. Process, Performance and Pilgrimage: A Study in Comparative Symbology. New Delhi: Concept, 1979. Esp chapter 1.

Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. New York: Aldine Publishing Company, 1969.

Van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960.



LANGUAGE
Hart, Kevin. The Trespass of the Sign. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford UK & Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. Chs 3 & 4.

Sells, Michael A. Mystical Languages of Unsaying. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

MARGINS AND CENTRE
Boff, Leonardo. Faith on the Edge: Religion and Marginalized Existence. Translated by Robert R. Barr. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

PLACE
Kaufman, Shirley. ‘Here and There: the Use of Place in Contemporary Poetry’ in Stuart Friebert et al. A Field Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Revised edition. Oberlin: Oberlin College Press, 1997.

Levis, Larry. "Eden and My Generation." In A Field Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, edited by Stuart et al Friebert. Oberlin: Oberlin College Press, 1997.

Rose, Jacqueline. States of Fantasy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

POST-MODERNISM/MODERNISM
Kronfeld, Chana. On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1993.

WRITING THE BODY
Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London & Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966.

Falk, Pasi. The Consuming Body. London: Sage, 1994. Church as sacred eating community.

Gilmore, Leigh. Autobiographics: a Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Chapter 4 and 5.

Greenblatt, Stephen. "Mutilation and Meaning." In The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio. New York & London: Routledge, 1997.

Mellor, Philip A, and Chris Shilling. Reforming the Body: Religion, Community and Modernity. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997.- Contains concept of Church as sacred eating community.

Rothfield, Philipa. "Bodies and Subjects: Medical Ethics and Feminism." In Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical ethics, and the Body, edited by Paul A Komesaroff. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995.

Rowe, Katherine. "'God's handy worke'." In The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio. New York & London: Routledge, 1997.

Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Chapter 4. JTL SY50S286

Schoenfeldt, Michael. "Fables of the Belly in Early Modern England." In The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzia. New York & London: Routledge, 1997.

Slattery, Dennis Patrick. The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh. New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. (See especially chapter 10.)

Stevens, Scott Manning. "Sacred Heart and Secular Brain." In The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio. New York & London: Routledge, 1997.

Turner, Bryan S. The Body & Society: Explorations in Social Theory. 2nd ed. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 1996.

GOD-TALK
Johnson, Elizabeth A. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. New York: Crossroad, 1994.
Sells, Michael A. Mystical Languages of Unsaying. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

OTHERNESS
Walton, Heather & Andrew W. Hass, eds. Self/Same/Other:Re-Visioning the Subject in Literature and Theology. Sheffield: Academic Press, 2000.

GENERAL
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford UK & Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997.