Silence, the Word and the Sacred

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TABLE OFCONTENTS Foreword vii About the Authors viii Introduction 1 Notes 9 I Experience of the Sacred by Poets and Writers The Words of Silence: Past and Present 13 Rudy Wiebe, University of Alberta Poetry and Positivisms: High-Muck-A-Muck or "Spiritual Ketchup" 21 Robin Blaser, Simon Fraser University Notes 47 St. Teresa's Jouissance: Toward a Rhetoric of Reading the Sacred 51 Smaro Kamboureli, University of Manitoba Notes 64 Notes on a Poetics of the Sacred 67 D. G. Jones, University of Sherbrooke Notes 81 The Word as Symbol in Sacred Experience 83 Stanley Hopper, Emeritus Professor, Syracuse University References 105 The Spiritual Power of Oral and Written Scripture Ill Harold Coward, University of Calgary Notes 134 II The Sacred Word in Specific Settings Evoking the Sacred through Language, Metalanguage, and the "Arts" in Native American and Arctic Experience 141 Joseph Epes Brown, University of Montana Notes 147 vi Silence, The Word and the Sacred Le sacre et 1' autre Parole : selon une voix feministe 149 Monique Dumais, Universite du Quebec a Rimouski Notes 161 The Word that Transfigures 163 David J. Goa, Curator, Provincial Museum of Alberta God's "Back Parts": Silence and the Accommodating Word . . . . 169 Ronald Bond, University of Calgary Notes 182 Fullness and Silence: Poetry and the Sacred Word 189 David W. Atkinson, University of Lethbridge Notes 201 III Conclusion Sublations: Silence in Poetic and Sacred Discourse 207 E. D. Blodgett, University of Alberta Notes 217 Index 221 ...