Entangled voices : genre and the religious construction of the self / / Frederick J. Ruf.
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| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 125 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: hearing voices
- ch. 1. The voices of narrative, lyric, and drama: The three characteristics of narrative
- Lyric
- Drama
- ch. 2. "Jogona's great treasure": narrative, lyric, and dramatic intelligibility: Intelligibility: Comprehensiveness and cohesion
- Conclusions
- ch. 3. "Intoxicated with intimacy": the lyric voice in John Donne's Holy sonnets: Unruly autobiography
- Donne's Holy sonnets
- Donne's lyric self
- The lyric voice
- ch. 4. "The circle of chalk": narrative voice in Primo Levi's The periodic table: The periodic table
- The aspiration to narrative
- Narrative instability
- "The rich and messy domain"
- ch. 5. "Survival and distance": the dramatic voice in Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach: Einstein on the beach
- Dramatic voice in Einstein
- The dramatic voice and religion
- The dramatic self
- ch.. 6. "Harmonized chaos": the mixed voice of Coleridge's Biographia literaria: The biographia literaria
- The form of the Biographia
- Dissociation, fragmentation, and incoherence
- Harmony and unity
- Ramifications: the "mixed" self
- ch. 7. Conclusion: genre and instability.