Save Us for We Perish: On My Relationship with a Woodcut Image
[This essay is a smudging or an exorcism — a chance to acknowledge a woodcut image's strange hold on me and free myself from its grip. It weaves together two kinds of analysis as a result. One is contextual: what is this thing and what was its intended purpose? The other is methodological: why...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
2019
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American religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 88-108 |
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| Summary: | [This essay is a smudging or an exorcism — a chance to acknowledge a woodcut image's strange hold on me and free myself from its grip. It weaves together two kinds of analysis as a result. One is contextual: what is this thing and what was its intended purpose? The other is methodological: why do some things attract or repel us as scholars and how does that shape our work? In the process, I explore the mid-nineteenth-century transmission of Catholic media through the Holy Childhood Association's Montreal offices, exploring the strange, transworldly globalism it sought to produce for its lay audience.] |
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| ISSN: | 2643-9247 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2979/amerreli.1.1.06 |