Edited by Kathie Birat and Brigitte Zaugg Literature and Spirituality in the English-Speaking World PETER LANG Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Oxford • Wien Table of contents Introduction Kathie BLRAT and Brigitte ZAUGG, editors 3 Spirituality and Society Demelza MARLIN Incarnation and the Spirit of the Social 13 Miriam WALLRAVEN Spirituality and Politics? Spiritual Models of Culture and Methods of World-making in Postmodern Utopian Texts 31 Fran?oise COUTURIER-STOREY and Jeff STOREY "God is a cluster of neurons": Spirituality and Gene Manipulation in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake 47 Mokhtar BEN BARKA Left Behind as an Example of the Intersection between Fiction and Fundamentalist Christianity 61 Spirituality and Poetry Hyesook SON "Puritan Spirit" and the Question of the Other: A Levinasian Reading of Emily Dickinson's Religious Poems 81 Brigitte ZAUGG A Haven for the Suffering Soul: Ellen Glasgow's Lifelong Quest 99 Benedicte CHORIER-FRYD The Lives of a Spirit: Mystical Bewilderment in Fanny Howe's Fiction 119 VI Table of contents Christophe LEBOLD "I'm the little Jew who wrote the Bible." A Reconfiguration of the Devotional Poet for the Age of the Mass Media: Leonard Cohen's Holy Hoaxes 133 Spirituality in the Americas Stephanie CARREZ "Fire-Worship": Nathaniel Hawthorne's Spirituality of Fire 147 Claude LE FUSTEC The Spirit of the Letter: American Literature and the Quest for Kerygmatic Power 161 Mirjana DANICIC The Spiritual Power of Toni Morrison's Fiction 177 Kathie BLRAT Syncretism and Spirituality in the Literature of the English-Speaking Caribbean: Erna Brodber's Myal 193 Sina VATANPOUR Metaphysics of Language and the Experience of Writing in Paul Auster's City of Glass 205 Abstracts 221 The Authors 229 .