The Word's Body: An Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation

by Alla Renée Bozarth

The Word's Body integrates depth psychology and linguistic philosophy to illuminate a metaphor of the creative process, specifically the performance of literature in public or private as "the word becoming flesh." This book expands the Johannine metaphor to describe the artist/performer/preacher's work of embodying the Creation, Incarnation, and Transformation/ The Words becomes flesh and dwells among us. It is an answer to Susan Sontag's call for an erotics of interpretation.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980