Religion, Jonathan Roberts Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke Do the Gods Wear Capes? Ben Saunders England’s Secular Scripture, Jo Carruthers Forgiveness in Victorian Literature, Richard Hughes Gibson Glyph and the Gramophone, Luke Ferretter John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics, Peter Jaeger Late Walter Benjamin, John Schad The New Atheist Novel, Arthur Bradley and Andrew Tate Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse, Samantha Zacher Victorian Parables, Susan E. Collectively, the series will offer a timely critical intervention to the interdisciplinary crossover between religion and literature, speaking to wider contemporary interests and mapping out new directions for the field in the early twenty-first century. Books will pursue a variety of theoretical approaches as they engage with writing from different religious and literary traditions. Jewish Feeling NEW DIRECTIONS IN RELIGION AND LITERATURE This series aims to showcase new work at the forefront of religion and literature through short studies written by leading and rising scholars in the field. ‘A fragment of the eternal truth’: Futurity and Race for Amy Levy ‘That elaborate misconception’: Debating Deronda with George Eliot and Henry James ‘Startling with excess of truth’: Futurity and poetic unfitness ‘A strange yearning affection’: The racial romance of Amy Levy’s Reuben Sachs Conclusion: Esther and Judith in London: Jewish Feeling as a New Category of Affect Bibliography Index Recommend Papers ‘Finer and finer discrimination’: George Eliot’s Feeling for the Jews ‘Various combinations of common likeness’: Fellow feeling and the ethics of form ‘ Absorbing enthusiasm’: Education and identity ‘A people with oriental sunlight in their blood’: Jewish nationalism 3. ‘The still undercurrent of deep feeling’: History and Nation for Grace Aguilar ‘More than unusually moved’: Representing women’s reading ‘The full gushing tide of rapture’: Theorizing women’s reading ‘The Bible, and that nation whose earliest history it so vividly records’: Jewish histories for England’s Jews 2. He has been commissioned by the University’s Barber Institute to write a new chamber opera, Raising Icarus, planned for production in 2022.Table of contents : Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Affect and Jewish Feeling What is affect? What is Midrash? Midrash and affect 1. Since 2012, he has been Professor of Composition and artistic director of CrossCurrents contemporary music festival at the University of Birmingham. Gordon is also strongly committed to working with students and younger composers, including at Cheltenham Festival, Juilliard, Antwerp Conservatorium, University of Oxford and as leader of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Emerging Composers Scheme. He has won the choral category of the British Composer Awards twice, a Prix Italia for his radiophonic work A Pebble in the Pond and has had two discs listed in The Times best 100 records of the year, in 2009 for On Memory, a piano music portrait disc on NMC, and in 2019 for In the Middle of Things, a chamber music portrait disc on Resonus Classics. Gordon has worked with many internationally leading performers, including London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, King’s College Cambridge choir and The BBC Symphony Orchestra who have commissioned him twice – for Bohortha in 2012 and a Violin Concerto in 2017, with Carolin Widmann and Sakari Oramo. Memory, time and a search for the serene are recurring themes. Born in London, Michael Zev Gordon is a composer of richly expressive and colourful music in which the tonal and atonal, the old and new, happily rub shoulders.
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