Religion after Postmodernism: Retheorizing Myth and Literature Book

Preface ix I Vanishing Origins 1
1.1 Collisions and Intensities 1
1.2 Possibilities of Excess 12
1.3 Modes of Spacing 33
1.4 Words, Health, and Commerce 44
1.5 Oracles and Apostles of Mourning 50
1.6 Language, Myth, and Interpretation 56
1.7 Of Ambiguity and Oracles 63
1.8 Inside Words 67
1.9 The Linguistic Concern 72
1.10 Postmodern Departures 80 II "Re-Marking" Myths and Crypto-Commerce 93
2.1 Mythical Gaps and Deadlocks 93
2.2 Myth, Symbol, Continuity in Eliade 105
2.3 Levi-Strauss and Myth-Systems 116
2.4 Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Myth 124
2.5 Zizekian Comedic Epilogue 133 III Literary Conditions 141
3.1 Literary Intervals 141
3.2 Literature Thinking Religion 145
3.3 Returning to the Thinking in Theory 149
3.4 Literature Overflowing the Sacred 156
3.5 Literature's Turning Away 158
3.6 Tolstoy's "Re-Marking" the Gospel 165
3.7 Kafka's Re-Marking K. 172
3.8 Ransmayr's Re-Marking Ovid 180
3.9 "Re-Marking" Thinking 190 Notes 197 Index 215