Material Spirit

Manuel Asensi (Author) Manuel Asensi is professor and chair of the Department of Literary Theory at the University of Valencia, Spain. His work focuses on literary theory, literature, film studies, and mystical poetry. He is the author of numerous books of criticism, including Crítica y sabotaje (Anthropos/Siglo XXI, 2011) (currently being translated into English as Sabotage Critique), Los años salvajes de la teoría: Philippe Sollers, Tel Quel y la génesis del pensamiento post-estructural francés (The Savage Years of Theory: Sollers, Tel Quel and the Genesis of French Poststructuralism) (Tirant lo Blanch,2004), J. Hillis Miller or Boustrophedonic Reading/Others (with J. Hillis Miller, Stanford University Press,1999), and Literatura y filosofía (Literature and Philosophy) (Sintesis,1995). He has also written a three-volume history of literary theory, published by Editorial Tirant lo Blanch, and several monographs on Cervantes, Derrida, Hitchcock, and early German Romanticism.Carl Good (Author) Carl Good is a freelance translator who lives in Chicago. He formerly taught in the Spanish departments of Emory University and Indiana University, Bloomington. He has edited the collection The Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization (Temple University Press, 2001) and has published numerous articles on Hispanic American literature and literary theory. He serves as co-editor of the journal Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

"Material Spirit will be a stimulating read for anyone who takes immanence seriously in, and especially across, philosophical, religious, literary, and cultural registers. Rather than rehearsing well-worn arguments or rehashing old debates, the contributors innovatively interpret the titular phrase, combining disciplines, methods, texts, and topics as seemingly unlikely, but as ultimately provocative, as the phrase 'material spirit.'" -- -William Robert Syracuse University "The contributions to Material Spirit are original, compelling, and beautifully interwoven. Together, they carve out a space that is neither religious nor not-religious, avoiding the dangers of unreconstructed immanence on the one hand and escapist transcendence on the other." -- -Mary-Jane Rubenstein Wesleyan University

• Introduction Gregory Stallings, Manuel Asensi, and Carl Good Eucharistic Imaginings in Proust and Woolf Richard Kearney Impossible Confessions Karmen MacKendrick The Third Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus Manuel Asensi Renunciation and Absorption: On the Dimensionality of Baroque Asceticism Burcht Pranger "For the Life Was Manifested" Kevin Hart Augustine, Rosenzweig, and the Possibility of Experiencing Miracle Virginia Burrus "Come forth into the light of things": Material Spirit as Negative Ecopoetics Kate Rigby The Angel and the Storm: "Material Spirit" in the Era of Climate Change Tom Cohen The Material Working of Spirit J. Hillis Miller Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index