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Publications of Wesley A. Kort    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Kort, WA. C. S. Lewis: A Commentary.  Oxford University Press, 2016.
  2. Kort, WA. Textual intimacy: autobiography and religious identities.  University of Virginia Press, May, 2012. (Forthcoming, May, 2012)  [abs]
  3. Kort, WA. Place and Space in Modern Fiction.  University of Florida Press, 2004.
  4. Kort, WA. C. S. Lewis Then and Now.  Oxford University Press, 2001.
  5. Kort, W. "Take, Read": Scripture, Textuality and Cultural Practice.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
  6. Kort, W. Bound to Differ: The Dynamics of Theological Discourses.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
  7. Kort, W. Story, Text, and Scripture: Literary Interests in Biblical Narrative.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.
  8. Kort, W. Modern Fiction and Human Time: A Study in Narrative and Belief.  Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1985.
  9. Kort, W. Moral Fiber: Character and Belief in Recent American Fiction.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982.
  10. Kort, W. Narrative Elements and Religious Meaning.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975.
  11. Kort, W. Shriven Selves: Religious Problems in Recent American Fiction.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1972.

Papers Published

  1. Kort, WA. "Scripture as ground and idea." Refractions of the Scriptural: Critical Orientation as Transgression  (March, 2016): 27-33. [doi]
  2. Kort, WA. ""’Landscape’ as a Kind of Place-Relation"." The Place of Landscape  (2011): 27-44.
  3. Kort, W. "Reading Places/Reading Scriptures." Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon, Rutgers University Press  (2008): 220-276.
  4. Kort, W. "Sacred/Profane and an Adequate Theory of Human Place-Relations." Constructions of Space: Theory, Geography, and Narrative, T&T Clark  (2007): 32-50.
  5. Kort, W. "The Chronicles of Narnia: Where to Start." Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles  (2005): 103-113.
  6. Kort, W. "Learning to Die: Work as Religious Discipline in Updike’s Fiction." John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace  (1999): 180-191.
  7. Kort, W. "Thomas Hardy and the Limits of Modernism." Morphologies of Faith: Essays in Religion and Culture  (1990): 69-84.
  8. W. Kort. "Exodus and its Biblical Paradigm." Exodus--A Lasting Paradigm  (1987): 72-83.
  9. Kort, W. "Exodus and its Biblical Paradigm." Exodus–A Lasting Paradigm  (1987): 72-83.
  10. Kort, W. "Human Time in Hemingway’s Fiction."  article reprint; Bloom calls this book a "selection of the best critical essays available upon the work of the twenty most eminent American fiction writers..." (p. ix). American Fiction 1914-1945  (1986): 315-331.
  11. Kort, W. "The End of Time in Kermode and Derrida." Immortality and Human Destiny  (1985): 62-72.

Book Reviews

  1. Shelly, B. "Shelly and Scripture: The Interpreting Angel." Journal of the American Academy of Religion  vol. LXIV (February, 2014): 710-712.
  2. Mueller, WR. "The Prophetic Voice in Modern Fiction." Una Sancta  (February, 2014): 120-122.
  3. Kort, W. "Doing "Religion and Literature" in a Postmodernist Mode." Christianity and Literature  vol. 39 no. 2 (Winter, 2013): 193-198.
  4. Kort, W. ""Religion and Literature" in Postmodernist Contexts." Journal of the American Academy of Religion  vol. LVIII no. 4 (Winter, 2013): 575-588.
  5. Kort, WA. "Between Conrad's London and sacred space." Religion and Literature  vol. 42 no. 3 (Winter, 2010): 27-41. [Gateway.cgi]
  6. Kort, WA. "What, after all, is "religion and literature"?." Religion and Literature. Edited by Susannah Monta.  vol. 41 no. 2 (June, 2009): 105-111. [Gateway.cgi]
  7. Kort, WA. "The Oxford Companion of English Literature and Theology." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION  vol. 77 no. 1 (March, 2009): 151-154. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  8. Kort, W. "Styron’s Corpus and Sophie’s Choice." Contemporary Literary Criticism  vol. 244 (2008): 199-202.
  9. Kort, W. "Styron’s Corpus and Sophie’s Choice." Christianity and Literature  vol. XXX (Winter, 2008): 64-71.
  10. Kort, W. "Christianity, Literature, and Cultural Conflict in America." Christianity and Literature  vol. 56 no. 3 (Spring, 2007): 463-479.
  11. Kort, WA. "What and Where is “Religion and Literature” Now?." Theology Today  vol. 62 no. 3 (October, 2005): 400-406. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  12. Kort, WA. "The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture By David Jasper: Oxford, Blackwell, 2004. 208 pp. $19.95." Theology Today  vol. 62 no. 1 (April, 2005): 116-120. [doi]
  13. Kort, WA. "Houses of Interpretation: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture By David Lyle Jeffrey Waco, Baylor University Press, 2003. 288 pp. $39.95." Theology Today  vol. 61 no. 3 (October, 2004): 386-389. [doi]
  14. Kort, WA. "Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship. By Colin Duriez. Mahwah, N.J.: Hidden Spring, 2003. xii + 244 pp. $15.00 paper.." Church History  vol. 73 no. 1 (March, 2004): 217-218. [doi]
  15. Kort, WA. "Narrative, religion and science: Fundamentalism versus irony 1700-1999." CHURCH HISTORY  vol. 72 no. 4 (December, 2003): 922-924. [Gateway.cgi]
  16. Cunningham, DS. "Reading is Believing." Theology Today  vol. 60 no. 2 (July, 2003): 245-246. [doi]
  17. May, JR. "Nourishing Faith Through Fiction." Religion and Literature  vol. 34 no. 2 (Summer, 2002): 111-115.
  18. Kort, WA. "Faith and narrative." RELIGION & LITERATURE  vol. 34 no. 2 (Summer, 2002): 111-115. [Gateway.cgi]
  19. Kort, W. "African Americans Reading Scripture: Freeing/Revealing/Creating." Christianity and Literature  vol. 51 no. 2 (Winter, 2002): 263-274.
  20. Kort, WA. "Nourishing faith through fiction: Reflections of the 'Apostle's Creed' in literature and film." RELIGION & LITERATURE  vol. 34 no. 2 (2002): 111-115.
  21. Kort, WA. "Redeeming laughter: The comic dimension of human experience." THEOLOGY TODAY  vol. 56 no. 1 (April, 1999): 134-136. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  22. Kort, WA. "People of the Book: Christian identity and literary culture." CHURCH HISTORY  vol. 67 no. 3 (September, 1998): 623-625. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  23. Bryan Shelly. "Shelly and Scripture: The Interpreting Angel." Journal of the American Academy of Religion  vol. LXIV no. 3 (Fall, 1996): 710-712.
  24. Kort, WA. "Shelley and sculpture: The interpreting angel - Shelley,B." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION  vol. 64 no. 3 (1996): 710-712.
  25. Edgerton, WD. "The Passion of Interpretation." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology  vol. XLVIII no. 3 (July, 1994): 306-307.
  26. Kort, WA. "Book Review: The Passion of Interpretation." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology  vol. 48 no. 3 (July, 1994): 306-307. [doi]
  27. Banion, JDO. "Reorienting Rhetoric: The Dialectic of List and Story." Literature and Theology  vol. XIII no. 2 (June, 1994): 223-224.
  28. Bernstein, JM. "The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno." Literature and Theology  vol. VIII no. 2 (June, 1994): 224-225.
  29. Hirsch, DH. "The Deconstruction of Literature: Criticism after Auschwitz." Literature and Theology  vol. VII no. 3 (September, 1993): 317-318.
  30. Levinson, HS. "Santayana, Pragmatism, and the Spiritual Life." The Christian Century  vol. 110 no. 9 (March, 1993): 301-302.
  31. DeConcini, B. "Narrative Remembering." The Journal of Religion  vol. 72 no. 3 (July, 1992): 480-481.
  32. Kort, WA. "Narrative Remembering. Barbara DeConcini." The Journal of Religion  vol. 72 no. 3 (July, 1992): 480-481. [doi]
  33. Frye, N. "Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature." America  vol. 164 no. 13 (April, 1991): 382-384.
  34. Randisi, JL. "On Her Way Rejoicing: The Fiction of Muriel Spark." Christianity and Literature  vol. 41 no. 1 (Fall, 1991): 97-98.
  35. Kort, W. "Religion and Literature: Some Methodological Questions." Christianity and Literature  vol. XXIX no. 3 (Spring, 1991): 45-49.
  36. Kort, WA. "The Community of Interpreters." International Studies in Philosophy  vol. 23 no. 1 (1991): 106-107. [doi]
  37. Kort, WA. ""Religion and literature" in postmodernist contexts." Journal of the American Academy of Religion  vol. 58 no. 4 (December, 1990): 575-588. [doi]
  38. Booth, WC. "The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction." Literature and Theology  vol. 4 (November, 1990): 361-364.
  39. Mott, WT. "The Strains of Eloquence: Emerson and His Sermons." The Christian Century  vol. 107 no. 16 (May, 1990): 504-505.
  40. Cutsinger, J. "The Form of Transformed Vision: Coleridge and the Knowledge of God." Modern Theology  vol. 5 no. 4 (July, 1989): 401-403.
  41. Jan Gorak. "God the Artist: American Novelists in a Post-Realist Age." Christianity and Literature  vol. XXXVII no. 2 (Winter, 1988): 64-65.
  42. KORT, WA. "GOD THE ARTIST - AMERICAN NOVELISTS IN A POSTREALIST AGE - GORAK,J." CHRISTIANITY & LITERATURE  vol. 37 no. 2 (1988): 64-65. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  43. Gunn, G. "The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture." The Christian Century  vol. 104 no. 20 (July, 1987): 600-601.
  44. Kort, W. "Narrative and Theology." Literature and Theology  vol. 1 no. 1 (March, 1987): 27-38. [doi]
  45. Kort, W. "Literature und Theologie." Stimmen der Zeit  no. 2/205 (February, 1987): 93-104.
  46. ed, FM. "The Bible and Narrative Tradition." Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts  vol. XXIX no. 2 (Spring, 1987): 245-257.
  47. Kort, W. "Beliefs Americans Share." The Journal of General Education  vol. 39 no. 2 (1987): 85-97.
  48. Miller, DC. "Three Faces of God: Traces of the Trinity in Literature and Life." The Christian Century  vol. 103 no. 27 (September, 1986): 817-818.
  49. Kort, WA. "Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism." Christianity and Literature. Edited by Schlecter, R; Markley, R.  vol. XXXV no. 2 (1986): 49-50.
  50. Ricoeur, P. "Time and Narrative." Books and Religion Vol. I vol. 13 no. 4 & 5 (1985): 9-9.
  51. Barbour, JD. "Tragedy as a Critique of Virtue." Journal of the American Academy of Religion  vol. III no. 3 (1985): 474-476.
  52. Edwards, M. "Towards a Christian Poetics." Theology Today  vol. XLII no. 1 (1985): 106-110.
  53. KORT, WA. "HUMAN TIME IN HEMINGWAY FICTION." MODERN FICTION STUDIES  vol. 26 no. 4 (Winter, 1981): 579-596. [Gateway.cgi]
  54. Kort, W. "Social Time in Faulkner’s Fiction." Arizona Quarterly  vol. 37 (Summer, 1981): 101-115.
  55. Kort, WA. "Review: The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative." Christianity & Literature  vol. 29 no. 1 (December, 1979): 53-55. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  56. Frank Kermode. "The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative." Christianity and Literature  vol. XXIX (Fall, 1979): 53-55.
  57. Kort, W. "Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Metaphor." Christianity and Literature  vol. XXVIII no. 2 (Winter, 1979): 49-51.
  58. Kort, WA. "Images for Self-Recognition: The Christian as Player, Sufferer and Vandal. David Baily Harned." The Journal of Religion  vol. 58 no. 3 (July, 1978): 330-332. [doi]
  59. Kort, WA. "Religion and Modern Literature: Essays in Theory and Criticism." International Journal for Philosophy and Religion. Edited by Tennyson, GB; Edward Ericson, J.  vol. IX no. 1 (1978): 62-63.
  60. Herbert, TW. "Moby-Dick and Calvinism: A World Dismantled." Journal of Presbyterian History  vol. LVI no. 2 (Summer, 1978): 169-170.
  61. Kort, WA. "Review: Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer." Christianity & Literature  vol. 26 no. 4 (September, 1977): 27-27. [doi]
  62. Cheever, J. "Falconer." The Christian Century  (July, 1977): 633-634.
  63. Wilder, AN. "Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination." The Christian Century  (April, 1977): 363-364.
  64. KORT, WA. "HORIZONS OF CRITICISM - ASSESSMENT OF RELIGIOUS-LITERARY OPTIONS - RULAND,V." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION  vol. 45 no. 4 (January, 1977): 542-545.
  65. Kunkel, FL. "Passion and the Passion: Sex and Religion in Modern Literature." Reformed Journal  (October, 1976): 25-26.
  66. Langer, LL. "The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination." The Review of Books and Religion  (February, 1976): 5-5.
  67. Kort, WA. "Religion as Story." Religion in Life. Edited by Wiggins, JB.  (Summer, 1976): 255-256.
  68. Dean, WD. "Coming To: A Theology of Beauty." Journal of the American Academy of Religion  (December, 1974): 784-785.
  69. Vernon, J. "The Garden and the Map: Schizophrenia in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture." Christianity and Literature  (Fall, 1973): 31-33.
  70. Gunn, GB. "Literature and Religion." The Christian Century  (January, 1972): 69-69.
  71. Rupp, RH. "Celebration in Postwar American Fiction." The Christian Century  (August, 1971): 1007-1008.
  72. Kellog, G. "The Vital Tradition: Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence." The Christian Century  (March, 1971): 354-355.
  73. Seib, K. "James Agee: Promise and Fulfillment." Journal of Modern Literature  vol. I no. 5 (1971): 712-713.
  74. ed, RF. "The Collected Short Prose of James Agee." Journal of Modern Literature  vol. I no. 5 (1971): 712-713.
  75. Alice, ; Hamilton, K. "The Elements of John Updike." Christian Scholar’s Review  (Spring, 1971): 283-285.
  76. Fairchild, HN. "Religious Trends in English Poetry, Vol. VI, 1920-1965: Valley of Dry Bones." Newsletter of the Conference on Christianity and Literature  (Winter, 1970): 11-13.
  77. Kort, W. "The Obsession of Graham Greene." Thought  vol. XLV no. 176 (1970): 20-44.
  78. Kort, W. "John Updike’s Fiction: Cross and Grace in Beruf." Anglican Theological Review  vol. LII no. 2 (1970): 151-167.
  79. Kort, W. "Christianity and the Arts: The Question of Either/Or." Newsletter of the Conference of Christianity and Literature  vol. XVIII no. 3 (1969): 13-17.
  80. Kort, W. "The Silence on That Side of Tock." Renascence  vol. XXI no. 4 (1969): 207-209.
  81. Updike, J. "Couples." The Christian Century  (October, 1968): 1340-1342.
  82. Kaam, AV; Healy, K. "The Demon and the Dove: Personality Growth Through Literature." The Christian Century  (March, 1968): 400-400.
  83. Kort, W. "The Groundless Glory of Golding’s Spire." Renascence  vol. XX no. 2 (1968): 75-78.
  84. Kort, W. "A Department of Religion in a Non-Confessional Setting." The Bulletin of the American Academy of Religion  vol. V no. 1 (1968): 15-20.
  85. Via, DO. "The Parables: Their Literary and Existential Dimension." The Christian Century  no. q (June, 1967): 753-754.
  86. William R. Mueller. "The Prophetic Voice in Modern Fiction." Una Sancta  (Winter, 1966): 120-122.
  87. Updike, J. "Of the Farm." The Christian Century  (January, 1966): 82-82.
  88. Lawler, J. "The Christian Image: Studies in Religious Art and Poetry." Una Sancta  vol. XXIII no. 3 (Fall, 1966): 127-128.
  89. Kort, W. "Recent Fiction and Its Religious Implications." Comparative Literature Studies  vol. III no. 2 (1966): 223-234.
  90. Kort, W. "Recent Fiction and the Christian Reader." The Reformed Journal  vol. XVI no. 7 (1966): 17-19.
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