On reader responsibility

An introduction

Clara B. Joseph, Williams Ortiz Gaye

1-12

Some dilemmas of an ethics of literature

Liesbeth Korthals Altes

15-31

Only irresponsible people would go into the desert for forty days

Jim Crace's quarantine or the diary of another madman

David Jasper

35-44

The ethics of biblical interpretation

rhetoricizing the foundations

Robert J. Hurley

45-62

Samuel Beckett's use of the bible and the responsibility of the reader

Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou

63-72

On trial

Mikhail Bakhtin and Abram Tertz's address to "God"

Lewis Owens

73-80

Bible and ethics

moral formation and analogical imagination

Johannes Nissen

81-100

The playwright, the novelist, and the comedian

a case study in audience responsibility

Dirk Visser

103-118

Dialogue in Gandhi's Hind swaraj or Indian home rule or the reader as truth-seeker

Clara B. Joseph

119-145

Responsibly performing vulnerability

Salman Rushdie's Fury and Edgar Laurence Doctorow's City of god

Erik Borgman

147-172

The "Indian" character of modern hindi drama

neo-sanskritic, pro-Western naturalistic, or nativistic dramas?

Diana Dimitrova

173-183

Film and apocryphal imitation of the feminine

Judith of Bethulia

Elizabeth Philpot

184-198

Revolting fantasies

reviewing the cinematic image as fruitful ground for creative, theological interpretations in the company of Julia Kristeva

Alison Jasper

199-214

Literature as resistance

Hannah Arendt on storytelling

Dirk de Schutter

215-231