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1 1 y separately published work icon Barefoot Kevin Hart , Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2018 13970472 2018 selected work poetry

'Barefoot is Kevin Hart's eighth collection of poems; it is rich in elegies, meditations on lost love, and celebrations of new love. The title speaks of mourning, pilgrimage, and the direct sensuous contact of flesh with earth.

'Harold Bloom has long extolled Hart as a "visionary of desire," and in this collection we find that vision deepened and that desire extended. Never before has Hart stretched his range of inspiration quite so far; while continuing to draw from Christianity, he also responds to the rich heritage of American Blues, and reveals a wit as sharp as a razor's edge.

'The poetry is at once religious poetry and love poetry; indeed, the "religious poetry" is itself love poetry. Always, Hart speaks to us in words that seem inevitable in their simplicity. As he himself has written, "The best conductor of mystery is clarity. The true bearer of complexity is simplicity." Barefoot will delight poetry lovers everywhere.' (Publication summary)

1 3 y separately published work icon Wild Track : New and Selected Poems Kevin Hart , Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2015 8440030 2015 selected work poetry

'The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing interest in Hart's poetry both in the United States and abroad. This volume performs a valuable service by bringing together the best of Hart's work from seven published collections, some of them now out of print, and from his forthcoming book, "Barefoot." It allows us to take the measure of his art: the careful balance Hart achieves between mystery and the real, a balance that is spiritual yet visceral, learned yet passionate; and his ability to meld redemption and hope, "always present, whether in the simple pleasures and small dignities of life or the larger questionings and confrontations of death" ("The Australian"). ' (Publication summary)

1 2 y separately published work icon Secularization Without End : Beckett, Mann, Coetzee Vincent P. Pecora , Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2015 10455047 2015 multi chapter work criticism

'In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the novel assume the gradual disappearance of religious themes through processes typically described as rationalization: philosophy and science replace faith. Pecora shows, however, that in the modern novels he examines, “secularization” ceases to mean emancipation from the prescientific ignorance or enchantment commonly associated with belief and signifies instead the shameful state of a humanity bereft of grace and undeserving of redemption.

'His book focuses on the unpredictable and paradoxical rediscovery of theological perspectives in otherwise secular novels after 1945. The narratives he analyzes are all seemingly godless in their overt points of view, from Samuel Beckett’s Murphy to Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus to J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus. But, Pecora argues, these novels wind up producing varieties of religious doctrine drawn from Augustinian and Calvinist claims about primordial guilt and the impotence of human will. In the most artfully imaginative ways possible, Beckett, Mann, and Coetzee resist the apparently inevitable plot that so many others have constructed for the history of the novel, by which human existence is reduced to mundane and meaningless routines and nothing more. Instead, their writing invokes a religious past that turns secular modernity, and the novel itself, inside out.' (Publication abstract)

1 y separately published work icon The Yusko Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2014- 10455036 2014 series - publisher criticism
1 2 y separately published work icon Morning Knowledge Kevin Hart , Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press , 2011 Z1790753 2011 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units)
1 y separately published work icon A Breeze Called the Fremantle Doctor : Poem/Tales Sonia Gernes , Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press , 1997 9355769 1997 selected work poetry prose

'These three poem sequences read like novellas, with each poem/tale set in a real time and place, and each documented with original photographs from scrapbooks and archives.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Religion and Literature 1984 Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 1984- Z1876961 1984 periodical (1 issues) Religion & Literature seeks to publish high-quality, innovative scholarship that explores the relations between two crucial human concerns: the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language. As an early editor remarked, the journal is determined to provide a usable, protean space for wide-ranging discussions of the many ways in which religion and literature are implicated in and shaped by each other. We welcome any scholarly approach provided authors are willing to consider religion not simply as cultural artifact but also as a living tradition, with all the paradoxes that phrase may embrace. Each issue includes articles, forums, and book reviews. Once a year, the journal also publishes a special issue dedicated to a particular topic in the field and edited by a guest editor.
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