Though not Corbin, strictly speaking. But for many of those interested in the hermeneutics of texts, poetic and/or sacred, it seems to me that there is enough of interest here to make the mind reel. It certainly has mine spinning.
jacket2 has a review by Elizabeth Robinson, a response and an interview with Bettridge about his book:
Palgrave Macmillan 2009, 204 pages, $80, ISBN 0230619428
It's worth noting that among other things, Bettridge is co-editor of Ronald Johnson: Life and Works.
From the review:
"In his discussion, Bettridge proceeds by setting up an extended (and
sometimes problematic) analogy between the Reformed Christianity of John
Calvin and Jonathan Edwards and Language writing." (!!)
...
"Perhaps one of the most exciting elements of
Reading as Belief
is Bettridge’s insistence on the primacy of the imagination. When
definitive knowledge is acknowledged as impossible, Bettridge argues,
imagination is a necessary resource that permits us to work with
tenuousness:
a poem or prayer, when pregnant with the imagination, allow us to grant
ourselves the roving honesty, expressive tensions, and intelligence we need
to read our constantly shifting ideas, dispositions, and experiences."
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