عنوان

The Sleep of Christ:

شماره

LA125302

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Sleep of Christ:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Incarnation and the Queerness of Heresy in W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being"

نام نخستين پديدآور

Raji Singh Soni

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article explores the circuitry between queerness, heresy, and materialist theology in a major literary work by W. H. Auden from the 1940s. Rather than banking on flights of erotic or ecstatic transcendence, Auden's "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio" (1944) intimates queer sexuality as a heretical form of immanence bound to theologies of the creaturely body. For Auden in the early 1940s, queerness is corporeal enough to organize a theological materialism-or, more spiritedly, a theo-corporeal-ism-whose roots lie in his considerable exposure to Søren Kierkegaard's religious existentialism. This article reads Auden's persistent elisions of Christ's body in "For the Time Being" vis-à-vis the oratorio's implicit investment in queer sexuality as theologically corporeal (i.e. theo-corporeal). Notwithstanding the paradox this implicitness poses for Auden's queer exegetes, the article maintains that "For the Time Being" is hermeneutically compatible with Marcella Althaus-Reid's key work on queer theology. This article explores the circuitry between queerness, heresy, and materialist theology in a major literary work by W. H. Auden from the 1940s. Rather than banking on flights of erotic or ecstatic transcendence, Auden's "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio" (1944) intimates queer sexuality as a heretical form of immanence bound to theologies of the creaturely body. For Auden in the early 1940s, queerness is corporeal enough to organize a theological materialism-or, more spiritedly, a theo-corporeal-ism-whose roots lie in his considerable exposure to Søren Kierkegaard's religious existentialism. This article reads Auden's persistent elisions of Christ's body in "For the Time Being" vis-à-vis the oratorio's implicit investment in queer sexuality as theologically corporeal (i.e. theo-corporeal). Notwithstanding the paradox this implicitness poses for Auden's queer exegetes, the article maintains that "For the Time Being" is hermeneutically compatible with Marcella Althaus-Reid's key work on queer theology.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

543-570

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

18/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

existentialism

اصطلاح موضوعی

heresy

اصطلاح موضوعی

materialism

اصطلاح موضوعی

queerness

اصطلاح موضوعی

secularity

اصطلاح موضوعی

theology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Raji Singh Soni

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-01804004

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y