Book Reviews by Curtis Gruenler
Review of _Dante's Persons_ by Heather Webb
Papers by Curtis Gruenler
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, 2014
Encyclopedia of the Bible Online
The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2021
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, 2020
Christianity & Literature, 2011
The works of Lewis and Girard share several central interests but seem divided by opposite views ... more The works of Lewis and Girard share several central interests but seem divided by opposite views of myth. Lewis' novelistic retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, however, provides a bridge: It depicts an ancient society organized around sacrifice and myth as understood in Girard's cultural theory and tells a Girardian story of conversion, in which the narrator discovers the imitative and rivalrous nature of her desire. Her rivalry and reconciliation with the story's true god carries the novel beyond Girardian myth to a contrary kind of narrative identified with fairy stories, which can extend Girard's approach to Christian conversion.
Christianity & Literature, 2008
Metaphor and Symbol, 2011
... DOI: 10.1080/10508406.2011.556502 Madeleine Kasten a ... while the symbolic image grants dire... more ... DOI: 10.1080/10508406.2011.556502 Madeleine Kasten a ... while the symbolic image grants direct access to the idea, the allegorical image bears no intrinsic relation to the concept which it represents: hence Coleridge's notorious dismissal of allegory as a phantom proxy of its ...
Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, 2021
If, as the social sciences argue, knowledge is socially constructed, friendship is the traditiona... more If, as the social sciences argue, knowledge is socially constructed, friendship is the traditional way of talking about relationships that construct knowledge well. An analysis of the value of friendship through mimetic theory, in dialogue with the social sciences and with literary examples drawn from Dante, Tolkien, and Rowling, argues that institutions of higher education should emphasize the development of capacities for friendship through the shared pursuit of the liberal arts.
Christianity & Literature, 2007
Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma
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