Poetics of the Incarnation

Cervone, Cristina Maria

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“…47 Exploring this ''impossible union,'' Cristina Cervone examines the ''simultaneous narration of Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection'' in Annunciation paintings, where ''one event flows from another.'' 48 Such a glimpse into the simultaneity of God's vision recurs in Jorie Graham's ekphrastic poem, ''San Sepolcro,'' which imaginatively describes Piero della Francesca's painting Madonna del Parto, one of the few representations of Mary about to go into labor. Graham offers a profoundly defamiliarizing vision of the ''scandal of the Incarnation,'' of an eternal being in the womb of a woman, as she juxtaposes the ''pregnant moment'' of life with death, frozen in the static painting, with the larger implications of Christ's own birth and death seen simultaneously: Inside, at the heart, is tragedy, the present moment forever stillborn, but going in, each breath is a button coming undone, something terribly nimble-fingered finding all of the stops.…”

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The Word and the Wheel: Navigating the Incarnation in Twentieth-Century Literature

Artuso

2017

Christianity & Literature

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This essay maintains that an incarnational aesthetic often privileges the concrete over the abstract, transcends the dichotomy between the secular and the sacred, and offers a glimpse into the intersection of time and eternity, as evidenced in the works of Kathleen Norris, Madeleine L’Engle, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Jorie Graham, though such themes are given particular resonance in the non-linear narrative technique of Graham Greene’s novel The End of the Affair. Greene seeks to represent the simultaneity of past, present, and future in the cyclical technique of his novel, which offers the unreliable narrator a redemptive entrance into God’s wheeling story of eternal love. The revelation of Christ’s Incarnation and a revaluation of corporeal presence stand at the heart of this novel, underscoring how human intimacy is a window into divine intimacy.

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The Word and the Wheel: Navigating the Incarnation in Twentieth-Century Literature

Artuso

2017

Christianity & Literature

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Fragments of Faith: Unpicking Archbishop John Morton’s Vestments

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This paper uses evidence from a previously unresearched ecclesiastical textile associated with Archbishop John Morton (c 1420−1500) to generate new insights into the material culture of the Roman Catholic faith before, during and after the penal period in England (c 1558−1829). This composite textile was initially thought to be made up of fragments of a late 1400s cope bearing Morton’s rebus, reconfigured as an altar frontal, which had survived in the house of an important Roman Catholic family. The embroidered motifs include a unique Lily Crucifix. The textile’s complex biography is ‘unpicked’ using physical and textual evidence to understand its changing forms, roles and significance. Analysis of the material and construction, combined with evidence gained through X-radiography, showed the frontal to be composed of parts of a cope and at least one other vestment, with a now missing image of the Annunciation. Mapping the stages of fragmentation, removal and re-modelling demonstrates the transformation of significant mainstream vestments into other forms. The paper illuminates aspects of Morton’s faith and provides new insights into the practices of recusant Roman Catholics.

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Poetics of the Incarnation

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The Word and the Wheel: Navigating the Incarnation in Twentieth-Century Literature

The Word and the Wheel: Navigating the Incarnation in Twentieth-Century Literature

Fragments of Faith: Unpicking Archbishop John Morton’s Vestments

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