Thursday, February 5, 2009

Recent works I have collected during January - note significant number of theses!

Billet, Annick. "Le mal et la souffrance dans la modernite: Le theatre des annees 40 et 50 en France et au Quebec." Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008. A number of references to Simone Weil.

Desmond, John F. Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light. Studies in Christianity and Literature. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2009.

Mele, Joseph M. "Homiletics at the threshold: Pope Benedict XVI's invitation." Ph.D. Duquesne University, 2008. See Chapter 4 "Simone Weil and the Word"

Mols, Yvana. "Weil, truth and life: Simone Weil and ancient pedagogy as a way of life." M.A. Institute for Christian Studies (Canada), 2008.

Picicci, Christen L. "Force and human suffering in sixteenth-century epic poetry: Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" and Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's "Araucana"." Diss. University of Oregon, 2008. See especially Chapter 2 Simone Weil on Iliadic Force and Empathy p. 24-62.

Rice, David L.G. "Misreading Simone Weil: Psychobiography, Pathos, and Politics " 2008 APSA (American Political Science Association) Annual Meeting. August 28, 2008: American Political Science Associationhttp://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/7/7/9/2/pages277924/p277924-1.php.

Rozelle, Rebecca. "Voiding Distraction: Simone Weil and the Religio-Ethics of Attention." PhD. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2008.

Wehr, Gerhard. Christliche Mystiker: Von Paulus und Johannes bis Simone Weil und Dag Hammarskjvld. Regensburg: Pustet, 2008.