In an era when many scholars and critics can't seem to see the forest of literature for the trees of theory, objective readings of texts are few and far between. Devotions to the Text constitutes a bold act of rebellion against those who would transform texts into mirrors that reflect only their own ideas and/or ideologies.
In an era when many scholars and critics can't seem to see the forest of literature for the trees of theory, objective readings of texts are few and far between. Devotions to the Text constitutes a bold act of rebellion against those who would transform texts into mirrors that reflect only their own ideas and/or ideologies.
Dr. Stephen Carter is the author of several books and Bible studies; he also leads a LifeLight Bible study at Concordia Lutheran Church in Kirkwood, Missouri. He was a seminary professor and served at Concordia Publishing House as vice president of editorial services, and then as president. Dr. Carter's passion is to help adults grow in the Word of Christ for a life of connecting people to Jesus.
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Chapter 1 Foreword by Edwin J. Barton Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 From Room to Room: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" Chapter 5 The Two Tarns: Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Chapter II of Henry David Thoreau's Walden Chapter 6 The Reader Erect: Poe's "The Premature Burial" Chapter 7 The First Hero of Relativism: Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware Chapter 8 "Can't You See One Pace Before You?:" Franz Kafka's The Trial and Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen Chapter 9 "You Better Have another Piece:" Ernest Hemingway's "Ten Indians" and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Chapter 10 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Alive: Hemingway's "The Killers" Chapter 11 Interlude: ABC of Thinking Chapter 12 Estragon's Ancient Wound: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot Chapter 13 "George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad:" Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chapter 14 "Plants Were Like People:" Jerzy Kosinski's Being There Chapter 15 Twice Upon a Mattress: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 16 Jack Gladney's Smoking Gun: Don DeLillo's White Noise Chapter 17 Flare to White: Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo and the Postmodern Turn
Chapter 1 Foreword by Edwin J. Barton Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 From Room to Room: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" Chapter 5 The Two Tarns: Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Chapter II of Henry David Thoreau's Walden Chapter 6 The Reader Erect: Poe's "The Premature Burial" Chapter 7 The First Hero of Relativism: Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware Chapter 8 "Can't You See One Pace Before You?:" Franz Kafka's The Trial and Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen Chapter 9 "You Better Have another Piece:" Ernest Hemingway's "Ten Indians" and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Chapter 10 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Alive: Hemingway's "The Killers" Chapter 11 Interlude: ABC of Thinking Chapter 12 Estragon's Ancient Wound: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot Chapter 13 "George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad:" Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chapter 14 "Plants Were Like People:" Jerzy Kosinski's Being There Chapter 15 Twice Upon a Mattress: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 16 Jack Gladney's Smoking Gun: Don DeLillo's White Noise Chapter 17 Flare to White: Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo and the Postmodern Turn
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