Tag: book review
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Birthquake: The Literary After-Shocks of the Great Kantō Earthquake in Arthur M. Mitchell’s “Disruptions of Daily Life.”
Works Reviewed: Arthur M. Mitchell Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 266 pages. The power of modernist fiction, contends Arthur M. Mitchell, lies in its ability to “make us aware of the discursive structures that undergird the imaginative relationship we have to our social world.” The…
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Loving in the Wreckage: Salvaging Liberal Theology.
Works Reviewed. Garry Dorrien In a Post-Hegelian Spirit: Philosophical Theology as Idealistic Discontent. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2020. Theology, particularly in its contemporary iterations, is always involved in the process of salvage work, in the sense that it must both recuperate and reinvent a way forward out of the fraught legacy of its history.…