Trying to say what was true': language, divinity, difference in marilynne robinson's gilead

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dc.citation.epage15en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage2en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber63en_US
dc.contributor.authorPloeg, A. J.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T10:45:25Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T10:45:25Zen_US
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.departmentProgram in Cultures, Civilization and Ideasen_US
dc.description.abstractMarilynne Robinson's Gilead is the journal of elderly minister John Ames, written to the seven-year-old son that he knows he will never live to see grow up. Though quite traditional in his conception of God, Ames nevertheless embraces progressive and even atheistic ideas regarding the divine. This article contends that Gilead resists being read strictly as an exploration of language's failure to express the transcendence of divinity, or, conversely, solely as an articulation of language's cryptic capacity to enact such inability. Instead, it seeks to be read as the confluence of these two approaches. In other words, Robinson's novel troubles the distinction between language's ability and inability to express by formulating it as in/expressibility, as the paradoxical simultaneity of the two that makes divinity discernible as difference. This article thus investigates the markedly unorthodox notion of divinity offered in Gilead and its broader implications for theological discourse. © Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 2016.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/20512856.2016.1152080en_US
dc.identifier.eissn2051-2864
dc.identifier.issn2051-2856
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/36592en_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20512856.2016.1152080en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Language, Literature and Cultureen_US
dc.subjectDifferenceen_US
dc.subjectDivinityen_US
dc.subjectGileaden_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectMarilynne robinsonen_US
dc.titleTrying to say what was true': language, divinity, difference in marilynne robinson's gileaden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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