"A glance at these 30 essays reveals Professor Slattery's astoundingly vast and varied range of scholarly interests....These disciplines function for Dennis as modes of knowing, modes of imagining."  --Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University. Elizabeth Fergus-Jean, Ph.D., is an artist and professor at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and faculty in the Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her artwork appears on numerous book and journal covers.

A Limbo of Shards: Essays on Memory Myth and Metaphor

Literature & Fiction

Slattery, Dennis Patrick

Essays & Correspondence

iUniverse

This book has been reissued with a new preface as "Re-Ensouling Education: Essays on the Importance of the Humanities in Schooling the Soul."

The Soul Does Not Specialize: Revaluing the Humanities and the Polyvalent Imagination

Education & Teaching

Rowland, Susan

Romanyshyn, Robert

Selig, Jennifer Leigh

Paris, Ginette

Aizenstat, Stephen A.

Zolbrod, Paul

Evans, Kathryn LeFevers

Hale, Cynthia Anne

Galindo, Nancy

Schools & Teaching

Mandorla Books

The twenty chapters in this volume are divided into Formal Essays and Cultural Essays. Both, however, explore in varying degrees the place of consilience between literature, mythology and depth psychology. The essays seek that place of analogy, or correspondence and of accord between the three bridges, the three disciplines mentioned in its subtitle. Together they amplify and extend what might best be called a psycho-poetics of myth, where mythology is understood as the mucilage or glue that holds psyche and poiesis together in one form and shape. The intention in all the essays is to invite the reader into the discussion with his/her personal myth resonating with the ideas and images present and to remember and reimagine one’s own narrative through the corridors of those presented in the volume. Bridge Work then carries two meanings: it wishes to span disciplines in order to increase one’s range of awareness and it wishes to create a third thing, the bridge itself, as a medium of and for expressing new insights. The hope is that the reader will come away from these twenty expressions of the relational nature of literature to psychology and mythology with a renewed sense of how interdisciplinary studies can reveal other ways of knowing not afforded the specialist inhabiting one field of thought.

Bridge Work: Essays on Mythology, Literature and Psychology

The three metaphors chosen by the poets of this volume are understood as three avenues, perspectives and vistas through which poems arise and from which they can be experienced. Poetry brings to the surface other worlds that are not generally part of the ego’s way of understanding. The poems in this volume transport other worlds forward (Road), give them a unique and coherent form (Frame) in order to allow one to see their unique vision more clearly (Window). As such, each of the poems expresses something unique of the symbolic nature of our human narratives by penetrating the familiar worlds we inhabit. Roads, Frames and Windows can open the reader to the realm of forces that move within us both individually and collectively.

Road Frame Window: A Poetics of Seeing

Carlson, Donald

Donohue, Timothy

Pope, Stephanie

Poetry

In this powerful book, travel along with Dennis Patrick Slattery as he sets off on a three-month pilgrimage, during which he struggles with his identity; his role as a father and husband, teacher and believer; as well as the life and death of his father. Throughout his stays at twelve monasteries and retreat centers, Slattery seeks the refuge of the monastic life where silence and solitude open an extraordinary window on the human soul. Against the backdrop of Slattery’s personal story, Grace in the Desert offers vivid descriptions of monastic life and practice at Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Buddhist monasteries and retreat centers.

Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Jossey-Bass

The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (Psychoanalysis and Culture)

Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded.

The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (Suny Psychoanalysis and Culture)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

State University of New York Press

Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image. An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded.

Introductory essay plus 91 poems all original and all written by me.

Casting the Shadows: Selected Poems

Morris Publishing

Just Below the Water Line

Winchester Canyon Press

The three metaphors chosen by the poets of this volume are understood as three avenues, perspectives and vistas through which poems arise and from which they can be experienced. Poetry brings to the surface other worlds that are not generally part of the ego’s way of understanding. The poems in this volume transport other worlds forward (Road), give them a unique and coherent form (Frame) in order to allow one to see their unique vision more clearly (Window). As such, each of the poems expresses something unique of the symbolic nature of our human narratives by penetrating the familiar worlds we inhabit. Roads, Frames and Windows can open the reader to the realm of forces that move within us both individually and collectively.

Literary

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