A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction

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Varsava, J. A. (1994). Review of Constructing Postmodernism by Brian McHale. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 25(3), 135–137. May, Melanie A (1995), A Body Knows: A Theopoetics of Death and Resurrection, Continuum International Publishing, ISBN 0-8264-0849-4 The other school of thought values the philosophical transcendentals as informed by classical theology. [2] It is led by individuals such as Anne M. Carpenter of St. Mary’s College, [3] California, and Richard Viladesau [4] of Fordham University, with contributions from Brian Nixon of Veritas International University. [5] This school of theo-poetics is influenced by the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar as informed by a range of thinkers as divergent as Gregory of Nyssa, Thomas Aquinas, Maximus the Confessor, Dietrich Richard Alfred von Hildebrand, David Bentely Hart [6] and Pavel Florensky. [7] Description [ edit ] The first school of theopoetics suggests that instead of trying to develop a "scientific" theory of God, as systematic theology attempts, theologians should instead try to find God through poetic articulations of their lived ("embodied") experiences. It asks theologians to accept reality as a legitimate source of divine revelation and suggests that both the divine and the real are mysterious — that is, irreducible to literalist dogmas or scientific proofs. McHale, B. (2007). What was postmodernism? Electronic Book Review. http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/tense. Accessed 20 Jan 2014.

Keller, Catherine (2003), The Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-25649-6 Carpenter, Anne (2015). Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs Von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being. University of Notre Dame Press. pp.82–116. ISBN 978-0-268-07706-8. This form of theo-poetics “requires the interplay of three massive fields of knowledge: metaphysics, language, and Christology” [9]and is to be “sharply distinguished from the agnostic overtures of the ‘theo-poetics’ movement, whose lineage is not be found in the thought of Balthasar.” [8]In October 2013, another American literary journal Narrative also published a special issue on “Postmodernist Fiction: East and West” with Wang Ning and Brian McHale, two postmodernist scholars with international fame, as its guest editors. The latest boom of publications of postmodernist scholarship containing eight articles by specialists in the study of postmodernist fictions, this special issue focuses on the narrative techniques of postmodern narrative in contemporary fiction “in an attempt to place postmodernist fiction in a historical and global context” (Wang 2013, p. 266). Although Wang Ning observes that “postmodern ideas and ways of thinking have permeated almost all the aspects of contemporary culture and are still influential in many humanities fields” (Wang 2013, p. 265), he admits, not unhesitatingly, that “it has receded into the historical past, albeit a past which is nevertheless still influential and significant to our literary and cultural studies” (Wang 2013, p. 265). Hart, David Bentley (2003). The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. Eerdmans Publishing.

Harpham, G. (1995). Ethics. In F. Lentricchia & T. McLaughlin (Eds.), Critical Terms for Literary Study (pp. 387–405). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lyotard, J.-F. (1984). The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge (Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. van Alphen, E. (1989). The heterotopian space of the discussions on postmodernism. Poetics Today, 10, 819–839. Culler, J. (1997). Literary theory: a very short introduction. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Wilder, Amos Niven (1976), Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination, Philadelphia: Fortress, ISBN 0-7880-9908-6 .

Faber, Roland (2003), Gott als Poet der Welt: Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie[ God as Poet of the World: Concerns and Perspectives in Process Theology] (in German), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, ISBN 3-534-15864-4 . Docherty, T. (1989). Review of Postmodernist Fiction by Brian McHale and What Fiction Means by Bent Nordhiem. The Review of English Studies, 160, 597–598. Theopoetics in its modern context is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines elements of poetic analysis, process theology, narrative theology, and postmodern philosophy. Originally developed by Stanley Hopper and David Leroy Miller in the 1960s and furthered significantly by Amos Wilder with his 1976 text, Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination. Tagore, Rabindranath (1913/2019). Gitanjali: Song Offering. Santiago de Chile: Independently Poetry [8]

In the second school of theopoetics, the aim is drawn “from von Balthasar’s affirmation of poetic expression: when God speaks to us in the Incarnation, all qualities of human language—even being itself—are employed as created ‘grammar’ by which God expresses himself to us…With God at the center of expression, poetry becomes capable of an authentic role in theological language.” [8]Hutcheon, L. (1995). Once again, from the top: More pomo promo. Comparative Literature, 36, 164–172. One school values process theology and postmodern philosophy. It is led by individuals such as L. Callid Keefe-Perry, Rubem Alves, Catherine Keller, John Caputo, Peter Rollins, Scott Holland, Melanie May, Matt Guynn, Roland Faber, and others. [1]

The mythopoetics of the Oxford Inklings (C.S. Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, among others) would also be an example of classical theopoetics. Charles Williams gave the name "Romantic Theology" to his project of establishing a subclass of theology at the intersection of imaginative literature and classical theology. Others have called it Christian Romanticism, Mythopoetics or Theopoetics. Northwind Seminary offers a doctoral degree program in the Romantic Theology of the Oxford Inklings. [www.NorthwindSeminary.edu]Ricoeur, Paul (1976), Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning, Fort Worth: Texas Christian Press, ISBN 0-912646-59-4 . Gregory, M. (2010). Redefining ethical criticism: the old vs. the new. Journal of Literary Theory, 4, 273–301. Cruz-Villalobos, Luis (2020). Poesía Teológica. Prólogo de John D. Caputo. 2da Ed. Santiago de Chile: Independently Poetry [6] Csicsery-Ronay, I. (1993). An elaborate suggestion. Review of Constructing Postmodenism by Brian McHale. Science Fiction Studies, 20, 457–464.