{"id":572,"date":"2014-08-15T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?page_id=572"},"modified":"2015-08-19T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T20:43:22","slug":"poetry-and-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/poetry-and-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>Stanford University Press<\/a>, 2009
\nreviews, excerpts, etc.<\/a>
\nselections at:\u00a0Google Books<\/a><\/p>\n

Poetry and Apocalypse<\/em> offers an interdisciplinary synthesis, combining a philosophical theory of dialogue, a literary-critical interpretation of poetic language in the apocalyptic tradition, and a negative theology that renews certain fundamental impulses and insights of revealed religion.\u00a0 It is concerned with finding the premises for dialogue between cultures, especially between religious fundamentalisms, like the Islamic, and modern Western secularism.\u00a0The thesis is that dialogue in general, in order to be genuinely open, needs to be able to open up to such a possibility as religious apocalypse in ways that can be understood best through the experience of poetry.\u00a0 The book interprets the Christian epic and prophetic tradition as a secularization of religious revelation that nevertheless preserves an understanding of the essentially apocalyptic character of truth and its disclosure in history.\u00a0The usually neglected negative theology that undergirds this apocalyptic tradition provides the key to a radically new and open understanding of apocalypse as inextricably religious and poetic at the same time.
\nReviewed by:
\nJoel Harter,\u00a0Journal of Religion<\/em><\/a> <\/em>90 (2010): 104-106 (pdf version<\/a>)
\nDorothy Z. Baker,\u00a0Comparative Literature Studies<\/em> 46\/4 (2009)<\/a>: 674-676
\nLee A. Jacobus,\u00a0James Joyce Quarterly<\/em><\/a> 46\/3-4 (2009): 624-627\u00a0\u00a0In Project Muse<\/a>
\nLarry D. Bouchard,\u00a0Religion and Literature<\/em><\/a> 43\/3 (2011): 249-52\u00a0\u00a0(pdf)<\/a> J. H. Sims, CHOICE: <\/em><\/strong>Current Reviews for Academic Libraries<\/em> <\/a><\/em><\/a>46.9 (May 2009): p1679.
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“Franke’s theory of poetic language as negative theology is persuasive and helpful in illuminating the complex relationship between religion and literature.”\u2014Joel Harter,\u00a0The Journal of Religion<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe book\u2019s stated objective is \u2018a postmodern negative theology of poetic language\u2019 (ix) that is both theoretical and practical, contributing to both literary theory and theology and promoting peace through radical openness to dialogue, and it is to Franke\u2019s credit that the result is both challenging and accessible.\u201d\u2014Joel Harter,\u00a0The Journal of Religion
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\n“Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language<\/em> is a profound and radical study that holds many surprises. . . .” <\/em>Dorothy Z. Baker,\u00a0Comparative Literature Studies<\/em>
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\n <\/em>” . . .\u00a0 a performed negative theology. At such wakes and festivals, it is the praxis of recursiveconversations<\/em>\u2014Poetry and Apocalypse<\/em> being an excellent example\u2014that disclose, indirectly, possibilities of transcendent openness.”\u2014Larry D. Bouchard, Religion and Literature<\/em>
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\n“Poetry and Apocalypse <\/em>will appeal to critics who credit a Christian interpretation of Joyce’s texts in part because its premises are carefully argued and theoretically balanced.” <\/em>\u2014Lee A. Jacobus,\u00a0James Joyce Quarterly<\/em><\/p>\n

Translation into German by Michael Sonntag and Ursula Liebing:<\/h2>\n

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Dichtung und Apokalypse: <\/strong><\/a>
\nTheologische Erschliessungen der dichterischen Sprache<\/strong><\/a>
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\n<\/strong>Aus dem Amerikanischen von Ursula Liebing und Michael Sonntag<\/strong>
\nSalzburger Theologische Studien Band 39<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Salzburg Studies in Theology, vol.\u00a039 (Intercultural 6)
\nInsbruck: Tyrolia Press, 2011
\nISBN 978-3-7022-3050-0
\n(216 pages)
\nDichtung und Apokalypse<\/em> sucht nach den Pr\u00e4missen eines Dialogs zwischen den Kulturen, insbesondere zwischen religi\u00f6s-fundamentalistischen und modern-s\u00e4kularistischen Haltungen. Die These ist, dass Dialog generell, um wirklich offen zu sein, sich f\u00fcr die M\u00f6glichkeit der religi\u00f6sen Apokalypse \u00f6ffnen muss. Eine solche M\u00f6glichkeit l\u00e4sst sich am besten \u00fcber die dichterische Erfahrung verstehen. In diesem Sinne wird die christliche Epik in die Tradition der prophetischen \u00dcberlieferung eingebunden und als eine S\u00e4kularisierung der theologischen Offenbarung ausgelegt. Ihre Sichtweise besteht dennoch auf dem wesentlich apokalyptischen Charakter von Wahrheit und ihrer Erschlie\u00dfung im Laufe der Geschichte. Die oft vernachl\u00e4ssigte Negative Theologie, die dieser apokalyptischen \u00dcberlieferung zu Grunde liegt, bietet den Schl\u00fcssel f\u00fcr ein neues und offenes Verst\u00e4ndnis von Apokalypse in ihrer stets zugleich dichterischen wie religi\u00f6sen Natur.<\/p>\n

WILLIAM FRANKE ist Professor f\u00fcr Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und f\u00fcr Religionswissenschaften an der Vanderbilt University in Tenessee \/ USA. Nach abgeschlossenen Magisterstudien in Philosophie und Theologie an der Oxford University und einem Doktorat in Komparatistik an der Stanford University war er Alexander von Humboldt-Stipendiat an der Universit\u00e4t Potsdam und Gastprofessor f\u00fcr Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der University of Hong Kong, sowie zuletzt Fulbright Professor am Zentrum Theologie Interkulturell und Studium der Religionen an der Universit\u00e4t Salzburg (2008). Zu seinen Publikationen z\u00e4hlen philosophische Betrachtungen \u00fcber Dante und verschiedene Dichter und Denker von den Griechen (z.B. Homer, Damascius) bis zur Postmoderne (Derrida, Celan etc.), sowie als bisherige Monographien\u00a0Dante\u2019s Interpretive Journey<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 1996) und\u00a0On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature and the Arts<\/em> (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).<\/p>\n

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