On the Responsibility of Churches to Safeguard and Promote the Spirit of Democracy, the Potential of the Humanities, and Other Thoughts — An Interview with Marilynne Robinson

Renascence ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-160
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Painter ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson,Gilead

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
Lanny Peters
Keyword(s):  
Marilynne Robinson

scholarly journals Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping: Sylvie’s Fundamental Mentorship through New Western Historicism and Ecofeminist Criticism

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Zastrow
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Marilynne Robinson ◽  
Old West ◽  
Ecofeminist Criticism

In the novel Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson discusses main character, Sylvie’s, relationship with nature in a way that revises what many New Western historians view as the Old West’s destructive ideology toward nature. Sylvie lives in opposition to what is seen as the aggressive mannerisms of Old Western males, individuals who have attempted to conquer both women and nature through their disregard for the female histories of the Old West as well as through their degradation of the faultless Western land. An effort that brings together both of these ideas, a concept that connects the maltreatment of women as well as of nature throughout history, ecofeminist philosophies are, in turn, relevant to a discussion of Robinson’s Sylvie and her New Western principles. Both viewpoints express a historical overlap of women and nature; therefore, Sylvie’s actions, which contradict the conquering mentalities of the Old West, also align with fundamental ecofeminist principles. Her actions throughout the novel possess an understanding and admiration of nature’s character as well as a voice that disagrees with the mistreatment that it receives.

Quiet in time and narrative

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Linear Representation ◽  
Marilynne Robinson ◽  
Representation Of Time

This chapter discusses the subjective depictions of temporality portrayed in the fiction of Marilynne Robinson and Paul Harding. Examining the discrepancy between the prize-winning success of quiet fiction and critical surprise at the trend’s existence, it suggests, first, that quiet fiction meets four key criteria and, second, that a quiet novel where very little happens is otherwise liberated from the linear representation of time.

An Interview with Marilynne Robinson

1994 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schaub ◽  
Marilynne Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Marilynne Robinson

scholarly journals Portrait of Marilynne Robinson

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Anne E. Voss
Keyword(s):  
Marilynne Robinson

scholarly journals Charles Taylor’s ontological hermeneutics and the question of existence in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
Hossein Pirnajmmudin ◽  
Sanaz Bayat
Keyword(s):  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Moral Worth ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Self ◽  
Marilynne Robinson ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
Dialogical Relation ◽  
Title Character

Abstract   Charles Taylor’s contribution (1964-2007) to the question of human existence expands across a wide range of areas to include ontological hermeneutics, linguistics, philosophy, and ethics. His Christian sensibility colors his philosophy of human existence which proposes that the self finds itself as a moral linguistic being who can exist only against a background of distinctions of moral worth and value and who is embedded in a world of meanings and dialogical relation with other linguistic beings. Marilynne Robinson’s acclaimed novel Lila (2015) is an account of the life of a young woman damaged by poverty, abandonment, and neglect and at the end healed by God’s grace. In fact, Lila is the story of how Lila, the title character, in her attempt to understand the meaning of existence through her being in the world and her linguistic awareness finds the answer to her questions in a higher sense of the good, the mystery of grace. In this study, first the dominant theses of Taylor’s philosophical anthropolo­­gy will be discussed followed by a discussion of Robinson’s stand ‒ which accords with that of Taylor – against the naturalistic theories of the self. Finally, the way the character’s interpretation of human existence accords with Taylorian framework is explored. Keywords: Charles Taylor, Marilynne Robinson’ Lila, existence, hermeneutics, self-interpretation, dialogical self.  

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