Shadow & Light : Literature & the Life of Faith - Softcover

Tippens, Darryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0891120688 ISBN 13: 9780891120681

Publisher: Abilene Christian Univ Pr, 1997

Synopsis

black and white hard cover with gold stamping. Essays, fiction and poetry with spiritual connotations. From such authors as John Donne, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, John Milton, Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti

About this title

From the Publisher

This in-depth anthology is widely used across the nation in various college and university classrooms. Professors of a broad range of courses, including Creative Writing, Intro to English, Literature and Faith, Composition, English Bible as Literature, World Literature and Culture and Faith, have selected this anthology as required course cirriculum.

About the Author

Darryl L. Tippens is Provost and Professor English at Pepperdine University, where he teaches courses in medieval and early modern literature. Before coming to Pepperdine University in 2001, he taught at Abilene Christian University for many years, where he was James W. Culp Professor of English literature. Dr. Tippens earned the M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature at Louisiana State University. He has published scholarly articles on Shakespeare, Milton, the Bible as literature, literary theory, and the works of Walter McDonald. He has published numerous essays on religion, spirituality, popular culture, and film. He is associate editor of Explorations in Renaissance Culture.

Stephen Weathers is Associate Professor of English at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas. Having earned the Ph.D. at Florida State University in 1999, he currently teaches a broad range of courses in American, British, and World literatures. His creative writing has appeared in a number of literary journals including the Concho River Review, Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion, and American Short Fiction, and it has garnered prizes in competition.

Jeanne Walker is Professor of English at The University of Delaware, where she teaches courses in the English Renaissance, as well as script and poetry writing. Her PhD is from The University of Pennsylvania. She travels widely to do readings and teach workshops at universities and writing conferences. For twenty years she served as Poetry Editor for Christianity and Literature and she currently sits on the Board of Shenandoah. The author of six books of poetry, including Coming Into History and A Deed To the Light, she also writes essays and scripts for the theatre. Among honors for her work, she holds an NEA fellowship in the Arts and a Pew Fellowship, and her poetry has appeared on busses and trains with Poetry in Motion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abilene Christian Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0891120688
• ISBN 13: 9780891120681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384