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Wesley A. Kort

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
328 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Scripture as ground and idea

Chapter · March 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Textual intimacy: autobiography and religious identities

Book · May 16, 2012 Given its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers define themselves in terms of religion. In his exploration of this "textual intimacy," Wesley Kort begins w ... Cite

Between Conrad's London and sacred space

Journal Article Religion and Literature · September 1, 2010 Cite

What, after all, is "religion and literature"?

Journal Article Religion and Literature · June 1, 2009 Cite

The Oxford Companion of English Literature and Theology

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION · March 2009 Full text Link to item Cite

Styron’s Corpus and Sophie’s Choice

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 2008 Cite

Styron’s Corpus and Sophie’s Choice

Journal Article Contemporary Literary Criticism · 2008 Cite

Christianity, Literature, and Cultural Conflict in America

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 2007 Cite

What and Where is “Religion and Literature” Now?

Journal Article Theology Today · October 2005 Full text Cite

Reading is Believing

Journal Article Theology Today · July 2003 Cite

Scripture as ground and idea

Chapter · March 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Textual intimacy: autobiography and religious identities

Book · May 16, 2012 Given its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers define themselves in terms of religion. In his exploration of this "textual intimacy," Wesley Kort begins w ... Cite

Between Conrad's London and sacred space

Journal Article Religion and Literature · September 1, 2010 Cite

What, after all, is "religion and literature"?

Journal Article Religion and Literature · June 1, 2009 Cite

The Oxford Companion of English Literature and Theology

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION · March 2009 Full text Link to item Cite

Styron’s Corpus and Sophie’s Choice

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 2008 Cite

Styron’s Corpus and Sophie’s Choice

Journal Article Contemporary Literary Criticism · 2008 Cite

Christianity, Literature, and Cultural Conflict in America

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 2007 Cite

What and Where is “Religion and Literature” Now?

Journal Article Theology Today · October 2005 Full text Cite

Reading is Believing

Journal Article Theology Today · July 2003 Cite

Nourishing Faith Through Fiction

Journal Article Religion and Literature · 2002 Cite

African Americans Reading Scripture: Freeing/Revealing/Creating

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 2002 Cite

Faith and narrative

Journal Article RELIGION & LITERATURE · 2002 Link to item Cite

Shelley and sculpture: The interpreting angel - Shelley,B

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION · 1996 Cite

The Passion of Interpretation

Journal Article Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology · July 1994 Cite

Book Review: The Passion of Interpretation

Journal Article Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology · July 1994 Full text Cite

The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno

Journal Article Literature and Theology · June 1994 Cite

Reorienting Rhetoric: The Dialectic of List and Story

Journal Article Literature and Theology · June 1994 Cite

The Deconstruction of Literature: Criticism after Auschwitz

Journal Article Literature and Theology · September 1993 Cite

Santayana, Pragmatism, and the Spiritual Life

Journal Article The Christian Century · March 1993 Cite

Narrative Remembering

Journal Article The Journal of Religion · July 1992 Cite

Narrative Remembering. Barbara DeConcini

Journal Article The Journal of Religion · July 1992 Full text Cite

On Her Way Rejoicing: The Fiction of Muriel Spark

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 1991 Cite

Religion and Literature: Some Methodological Questions

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 1991 Cite

The Community of Interpreters

Journal Article International Studies in Philosophy · 1991 Full text Cite

"Religion and literature" in postmodernist contexts

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Religion · December 1, 1990 Full text Cite

The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction

Journal Article Literature and Theology · November 1990 Cite

The Strains of Eloquence: Emerson and His Sermons

Journal Article The Christian Century · May 1990 Cite

The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture

Journal Article The Christian Century · July 1987 Cite

Narrative and Theology

Journal Article Literature and Theology · March 1987 Cite

Literature und Theologie

Journal Article Stimmen der Zeit · February 1987 Cite

The Bible and Narrative Tradition

Journal Article Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts · 1987 Cite

Beliefs Americans Share

Journal Article The Journal of General Education · 1987 Cite

Three Faces of God: Traces of the Trinity in Literature and Life

Journal Article The Christian Century · September 1986 Cite

Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 1986 Cite

Towards a Christian Poetics

Journal Article Theology Today · 1985 Cite

Tragedy as a Critique of Virtue

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Religion · 1985 Cite

Time and Narrative

Journal Article Books and Religion · 1985 Cite

Social Time in Faulkner’s Fiction

Journal Article Arizona Quarterly · 1981 Cite

HUMAN TIME IN HEMINGWAY FICTION

Journal Article MODERN FICTION STUDIES · 1981 Cite

Review: The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative

Journal Article Christianity & Literature · December 1979 Full text Cite

Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Metaphor

Journal Article Christianity and Literature · 1979 Cite

Moby-Dick and Calvinism: A World Dismantled

Journal Article Journal of Presbyterian History · 1978 Cite

Religion and Modern Literature: Essays in Theory and Criticism

Journal Article International Journal for Philosophy and Religion · 1978 Cite

Falconer

Journal Article The Christian Century · July 1977 Cite

Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination

Journal Article The Christian Century · April 1977 Cite

HORIZONS OF CRITICISM - ASSESSMENT OF RELIGIOUS-LITERARY OPTIONS - RULAND,V

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION · January 1, 1977 Link to item Cite

Passion and the Passion: Sex and Religion in Modern Literature

Journal Article Reformed Journal · October 1976 Cite

The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination

Journal Article The Review of Books and Religion · February 1976 Cite

Religion as Story

Journal Article Religion in Life · 1976 Cite

Coming To: A Theology of Beauty

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Religion · December 1974 Cite

Literature and Religion

Journal Article The Christian Century · January 1972 Cite

Celebration in Postwar American Fiction

Journal Article The Christian Century · August 1971 Cite

The Vital Tradition: Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence

Journal Article The Christian Century · March 1971 Cite

The Elements of John Updike

Journal Article Christian Scholar’s Review · 1971 Cite

The Collected Short Prose of James Agee

Journal Article Journal of Modern Literature · 1971 Cite

James Agee: Promise and Fulfillment

Journal Article Journal of Modern Literature · 1971 Cite

Religious Trends in English Poetry, Vol. VI, 1920-1965: Valley of Dry Bones

Journal Article Newsletter of the Conference on Christianity and Literature · 1970 Cite

John Updike’s Fiction: Cross and Grace in Beruf

Journal Article Anglican Theological Review · 1970 Cite

The Obsession of Graham Greene

Journal Article Thought · 1970 Cite

Christianity and the Arts: The Question of Either/Or

Journal Article Newsletter of the Conference of Christianity and Literature · 1969 Cite

The Silence on That Side of Tock

Journal Article Renascence · 1969 Cite

Couples

Journal Article The Christian Century · October 1968 Cite

The Demon and the Dove: Personality Growth Through Literature

Journal Article The Christian Century · March 1968 Cite

A Department of Religion in a Non-Confessional Setting

Journal Article The Bulletin of the American Academy of Religion · 1968 Cite

The Groundless Glory of Golding’s Spire

Journal Article Renascence · 1968 Cite

The Parables: Their Literary and Existential Dimension

Journal Article The Christian Century · June 1967 Cite

Of the Farm

Journal Article The Christian Century · January 1966 Cite

Recent Fiction and the Christian Reader

Journal Article The Reformed Journal · 1966 Cite

Recent Fiction and Its Religious Implications

Journal Article Comparative Literature Studies · 1966 Cite

Shelly and Scripture: The Interpreting Angel

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Religion Cite

The Prophetic Voice in Modern Fiction

Journal Article Una Sancta Cite

"Religion and Literature" in Postmodernist Contexts

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Religion Cite

Doing "Religion and Literature" in a Postmodernist Mode

Journal Article Christianity and Literature Cite