3 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 1996-2019
Religion, Emotion, Sensation December 3, 2019 Amy Hollywood
What does it mean to read and write devoutly, religiously, mystically—even, or especially, if one’s reading or writing qualifies for none of these adverbs in any conventional sense? What, in particular, does it mean to read and write about death and dying in these affective registers? These are the questions that animate this essay, a deeply personal dialogue with selected literary authors that...
Medieval Feminist Newsletter September 1, 1996 Amy Hollywood
Ulrike Wiethaus' ambitious goal is to make medieval mysticism intellectually accessible to a modem western audience (2).To do this, she draws analogies between modem psychologies open to the existence and significance of "altered states of consciousness" and the accounts of ecstasies and visions within Mechthild of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead.The study is divided into two...
diacritics June 1, 1996 Amy Hollywood 3 citations
Bataille and Mysticism: A “Dazzling Dissolution” Amy Hollywood (bio) Within Georges Bataille’s texts of the late 1930s and 1940s, in particular those later brought together in the tripartite Atheological Summa, he repeatedly suggests that his primary models for writing and experience are the texts of the Christian and non-Western mystical traditions (often represented, in Bataille, by women’s...