The collar : reading Christian ministry in fiction, television, and film /

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Combining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, The Collar is a wide-ranging study of the many ways--heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly--Christian ministers have been represented in literature and film. Since all Christians are expected to be involved in ministry of some type, the assu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sorensen, Sue (Autor)
Otros Autores: Willimon, William H. (Autor de introducción, etc.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2014]
Temas:
Clergy in literature.
Clergy on television.
Clergy in motion pictures.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Clergé dans la littérature.
Clergé à la télévision.
Clergé au cinéma.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature, Modern.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: Why literary ministers?
  • Interlude: "The Collar" by George Herbert
  • Heroism and suffering: "Romeo," "The Mission," "Becket," "Murder in the Cathedral," "The Power of the Glory," "Gilead"
  • Interlude: "Diary of a Country Priest" by Georges Bernanos
  • The counselor/confessor: George Eliot, E.M. Forster, A.S. Byatt
  • Interlude: Scenes of clerical life by George Eliot
  • Fools for Christ: "Tristam Shandry," "The vicar of Wakefield," "Bleak House," "The Warden," "Monsignor Quixote," "Heavens Above!," Rowan Atikinson's vicars
  • Interlude: Barbara Pym and Jan Karon
  • The Collard detective: Brother Cadfael mysteries, Father Brown stories, "The Name of the Rose"
  • Interlude: "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
  • Passion, for better and for worse: "The Scarlet Letter," "The Crucible," "Racing Demon," "Priest"
  • Interlude: "The Book Against God," a novel by James Wood
  • Failure for worse and for better: "Jane Eyre," "Middlemarch," Margaret Oliphant, Jane Austen, John Updike, Clint Eastwood
  • Interlude: "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley
  • Disaster: "A portrait of the artist as a young man," "Brand," "The Spire," "Light of August," "Rain"
  • Interlude: "Pale Rider," directed by Clint Eastwood
  • Frustration: The Collar on Screen: "The Thord Birds," "Footloose," "7th Heaven," "Keeping the Faith," "The Vicar of Dibley," "Rev."
  • Interlude: The Bing Crosby and Richard Burton movie priests
  • Clergy wives and daughters: The concealed collar: "A Clergyman's Daughter," "Bed among the lentils," "The rector's wife," "Candida"
  • Interlude: "The Bell" by Iris Murdoch
  • The Canadian Collar: "The stone angel," "Such is my beloved," "As for me and my house," "Good to a fault," Robertson Davies, Ralph Connor, Stephen Leacock, Warren Cariou
  • Interlude: "Lights and Shadows of Clerical Life" by William Cheetham
  • Postlude: "Corpus permixtum."

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