The Landscape of literary theory during the last four decades has been a chaotic and rapidly changing scene, with many rival voices clamoring for attention. Recognizing that there is a disturbing
The Landscape of literary theory during the last four decades has been a chaotic and rapidly changing scene, with many rival voices clamoring for attention. Recognizing that there is a disturbing dearth of Christian literary theory, Clarence Walhout and Leland Ryken have compiled this volume of essays in order to explain several predominantly secular theories and assess them from a Christian perspective.
“Calling Christian scholars to overdue participation in ‘the debates over contemporary literary theory,’ this collection provides a useful overview of critical debates and movements in our time. Whether the dozen essays in fact prepare
the ground for a ‘Christian criticism’ will no doubt be disputed; that they nudge us insistently and insightfully in the right direction, however, cannot be denied. Insofar as they repudiate a facile separation between belief and practice, these
thoughtful critiques issue a challenge that should not go unheeded within the academy at large.”
ROBERT SNYDER
Editor of Christianity and Literature
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Clarence Walhout, an English professor at Calvin College for over twenty years, is a coauthor of The Responsibility of Hermeneutics.
Leland Ryken is chair of the English Department at Wheaton College; his books include The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly about the Arts and Windows to the World: Literature in Christian Perspective.
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