بستن روح : الهیات، رمز و راز و فراتر رفتن از ادبیات

Binding the Ghost is both manifesto and example of a new variety of reading that centers a theological perspective in considering what literature actually does. Neither dogmatic nor apologetic, sectarian or denominational, this mode of reading acknowledges the inherently charged strangeness of writing and fiction, whereby authors have the ability to seemingly create entire universes from words alone. Ed Simon considers the theological depth, resonance, and mystery of the acts of reading and writing. His lyrical, incisive essays cover subjects such as the incarnational poetics of reading a physical book as opposed to reading online, the historical relationship between monotheism and the development of the alphabet, how the novel and Protestantism developed interiority within people, the occult significance of punctuation, and the functional similarities between poetry and prayer. Binding the Ghost presents a humane sacralization of reading and writing that takes into account the wonder, enchantment, and mystery of the very idea of poetry and fiction.

Binding the Ghost is both manifesto and example of anew variety of reading that centers a theological perspective inconsidering what literature actually does. Neither dogmatic norapologetic, sectarian or denominational, this mode of readingacknowledges the inherently charged strangeness of writing andfiction, whereby authors have the ability to seemingly createentire universes from words alone.

Ed Simon considers the theological depth, resonance, and mysteryof the acts of reading and writing. His lyrical, incisive essayscover subjects such as the incarnational poetics of reading aphysical book as opposed to reading online, the historicalrelationship between monotheism and the development of thealphabet, how the novel and Protestantism developed interioritywithin people, the occult significance of punctuation, and thefunctional similarities between poetry and prayer. Binding theGhost presents a humane sacralization of reading and writingthat takes into account the wonder, enchantment, and mystery of thevery idea of poetry and fiction.

Binding the Ghost considers the theological depth, resonance, and mystery of the acts of reading and writing. Ed Simon presents a lyrical, incisive, and humane sacralization of reading and writing that takes into account the wonder, enchantment, and mystery of the very idea of poetry and fiction