Corbin & Poetry - Another in the Series

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:

Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith
by Joel Bettridge

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." (!!)

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"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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