Process Thought and Literature

Altieri, Charles.  "From Symbolist Thought to Immanence: The Ground of Postmodern American Poetics."  Process Studies 8, no.2 (Summer 1978): 134.  [abstract]

_____.  "The Problem of Defining Some Educational Aspects of Literary Experience: A Test Case for Whiteheadian Analysis." (unpubl.) [Conf. Paper “Aesthetics and Process Thought” January 1980]

Anderson, Susan A. "Evolutionary Futurism in Stapledon's Star Maker"  Process Studies 5, no.2 (Summer 1975): 123-28. [abstract]

Batchelor, John Calvin. The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. [abstract]

Beardslee, William A. "Stories in the Postmodern World: Orienting and Disorienting." In Sacred Interconnections: Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and Art, ed. David Ray Griffin (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), 163-75.

Belaief, Lynne.  Review:  Bruce Wilshire, Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor.  Process Studies 15, no.2 (Summer 1986): 145-46.

Bense, Max. "Kosmologie und Literatur: Uber Alfred N. Whitehead und Gergrude Stein."  Texte und Zeichen: Ein literarische Zeitschrift 3 (1957): 512-25.

Braeckman, Antoon. "Whitehead and German Idealism: A Poetic Heritage."  Process Studies 14, no.4 (Winter 1985): 265-86.

Bromell, David J. "Sallie McFague's 'Metaphorical Theology'." Journal of the American Academy of Religion LXI, no. 3: 485-503.

Brown, Frank Burch. "Poetry and the Possibility of Theology:  Whitehead's Views Reconsidered."  The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 50, no.4 ( . . . ):  507-20.

_____.  "Transfiguration: Poetic Metaphor and Theological Reflection." The Journal of Religion 62, no.1 (January 1982): 39-56.

_____.  Transfiguration: Poetic Metaphor and the Languages of Religious Belief.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Campbell, Harry M. "Emerson and Whitehead." Proceedings of the Modern Language Association 75 (1960): 577-82.

Cappon, Alexander P.  About Wordsworth and Whitehead: A Prelude to Philosophy.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1982. [abstract]

_____.  Action, Organism and Philosophy in Wordsworth and Whitehead.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1985. [abstract]

_____.  Aspects of Whitehead and Wordsworth: Philosophy and Certain Continuing Life Problems. New York: Philosophical Library, 1983. [abstract]

Christensen, Matthew. "Support for William Wordsworth's Philosophic Beliefs and Possible Ethical Implications."  Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau 30 (Apr. 1988): 41-7.  [abstract]

Christensen, Paul.  Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael. Austin:  University of Texas Press, 1975 (See pp. 137-40.)

Coleman, Monica A. "Process Theought and Womanist Theology: Black Women's Science Fiction as a Resource for Process Theology." Paper presented at Center For Process Studies Seminar, Claremont, April 29, 2003. 

Colwell, C. Carter. "Literary Criticism and Process Thought:  Blackmur, Sartre, Brooks, and Whitehead."  Process Studies 2, no.3 (Fall 1972): 183-92. [abstract]

Dicken, Thomas M.  “Against Perishing: Reflections on Time and the Conservation of Value in Twentieth-Century Literature.” Soundings 83, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 361-83.

Donnelley, Strachan. "The Philosopher's Poet: Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago, and Whitehead's Cosmological Vision."  Process Studies 13, no.1 (Spring 1983): 46-58.

Dombrowski, Daniel A. "Journeying Toward the Promised Land: Kazantzakis, Method, and the East." Modern Greek Studies 8-9 (2001): 73-79. 

_____. Kazantzakis and God.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1997.

_____. "Kazantzakis and Mysticism." in God's Struggler. eds. Darren J. N. Middleton and Peter Bien (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1996): 71-91.  

_____. "Kazantzakis and the New Middle Ages." Religion and Lierature 26, no. 3 (Autumn 1994): 19-32.

_____. "Neoclassical Theism and Spiritual Exercises: Pierre Hadot and Nikos Kazantzakis on Askesis." Process Studies 38, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2009): 93-107. [abstract

_____. "Nikos Kazantzakis, Bergson and God." in Literature and Process Thought. ed. by Darron Middleton (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002): 173-89. 

_____. “Rorty Versus Hartshorne, or, Poetry Versus Metaphysics.” Metaphilosophy 38, no. 1 (January 2007): 88-110. [abstract]

Doud, Robert E. “Contemplative Themes in the Poetry of Denise Levertov.”  (Unpublished.)

_____.  "Eliot's Four Quartets in Process Prospective." (unpubl.)  

_____.  “Ereignis in Heidegger and Concrescence in Whitehead.” (unpubl.)

_____.  "Gaia's Web:  The Coalescence of Religious Ideas in Gary Snyder's Poetry."  (unpubl.)

_____.  “Orphism in Whitehead and Some Other Poetic Thinkers.”  Process Studies 33, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2004): 323-338.

_____.  "Paterson in Process: A Whiteheadian Interpretation of William Carlos Williams."  (unpubl.)

_____.  "Poetry and Sensibility in the Vision of Karl Rahner."  Thought 58, no.231 (December 1983): 439-52.

_____.  “The Poetry of Louise Bogan in Whiteheadian Perspective.” Unpublished Paper.  

_____.  "Ranier Maria Rilke's Life of the Virgin Mary: A Whiteheadian-Rahnerian Critique."  (unpubl.)

_____. “Review: God, Literature, and Process Thought, by Darren Middleton.” In Process Studies 32, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2003): 313-15.

_____. Review of Novel Theology: Nikos Kazantzakis's Encounter with Whiteheadian Process Theism by Darren J. N. Middleton. In Process Studies 30, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2001): 164-66. 

_____.  "The Trinity After Breakfast: Theology and Imagination in Wallace Stevens and A. N. Whitehead." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 52, no.3 (n.d.): 481-98.

_____.  "Whitehead and the Critique of Literature." (unpubl.)

_____.  "Whitehead and the Poets."  (unpubl.)

_____.  "Whitehead and Romanticism."  (unpubl.)

_____.  “A Whiteheadian Interpretation of Baudelaire’s Poetry.” Process Studies 31, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2002): 16-31.

_____.  “A Whiteheadian Interpretation of Thomas Traherne’s Poetry.” (unpubl.)

_____.  “A Whiteheadian Interpretation of Wallace Stevens.” (unpubl.)

Edwards, M.  "Abstract: Charles Altieri, From Symbolist Thought to Immanence: the Ground of Postmodern American Poetics." Process Studies 8, no.2 (Summer 1978):134.

Eliot, T. S. "Poetry and Propaganda." The Bookman (February 1930).

Faas, Ekbert.  "From Mimesis to Kinesis: The Aristotelian Tragic Matrix, Psychoanalysis and Some Recent Alternatives." Process Studies 13, no.1 (Spring 1983): 88-103.

_____. ed.  Towards a New American Poetics:  Essays and Interviews: Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Gary Synder, Robert Creely, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg.  Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press,  1978. [Charles Olson]

Fallon, April.  “Poetry and Process.”  The Midwest Quarterly 45, no. 3 (Spring 2004): 256-272.

Fiddes, Paul S.  Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue Between Literature and Christian Doctrine.  Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1999. [abstract

Fitting, Wendy.  "Grace in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O' Connor." (unpubl.)

Ford, Lewis S.  Abstract:  Juliana Geran Pilon, "Whitehead and Solzhenitsyn on Freedom and Harmony." Process Studies 7, no.2 (Summer 1977): 139.

Fortescue, Michael.  “The Pattern and Process of Language in Use: A Test Case.”  Axiomathes 14 (2004):  177-218.

Fullbrook, Kate.  “Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead.” In Special Relationships: Anglo-American Affinities and Antagonisms 1854-1936 eds. Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2002): 242-58.

Gould, K. A. "The Modern Wordsworth: A Comparative Study of Wordsworth and Hartshorne.' Ph.D. Dissertation.  Pennsylvania State University, 1973.

Hallberg, Robert von.  Charles Olson: The Scholar's Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. 

Hartshorne, Charles.  "In Defense of Wordsworth's View of Nature.

________.  "Some Theological Mistakes and Their Effects on Modern Literature." Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1, no.1 (1987): 55-72.

_____.  "Thomas Aquinas and Three Poets Who Do Not Agree with Him."  Process Studies 30, no.2 (Fall-Winter): 261-275.

Hawley, Richard A. "Mindless Lover to the Process Theologian" (poem). Process Studies 5, no.1 (Spring 1975): 46. [abstract]

Hilberry, Conrad. "Whiteheadian Poems." Process Studies 13, no.1 (Spring 1983):  38-45

Hittinger, John P.  "The Intuition of Being: Metaphysics or Poetry." In Jacques Maritain, ed. John F. X. Knasas (Notre Dame: University Of Notre Dame Press), 71-81. [abstract]

Hoffmann, Charles G. “Whitehead's Philosophy of Nature and Romantic Poetry.”  J. Aesth. and Criticism  10, no.3 (1952)

Kazantzakis, Nikos. “The Saviors of God.” Translated by Kimon Friar. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

Keenaghan, Eric Christian.  “Making Flesh Word: Baroque Modernisms and Pragmatist Refigurations of Embodied Masculinities in Twentieth-Century United States and Cuban Literatures.”  PhD Diss., Temple University, 2003.

Kirk, James. Organicism as Reenchantment: Whitehead, Prigogine, and Barth. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. [abstract}

Kumar, S. K.  Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel. [???]

Kunene, Mazisi. Anthem of the Decades. London: Heineman, 1981. [abstract]

_____. Emperor Shaka the Great. London: Heineman, 1979. [abstract]

Kuntz, Paul G. "Truth is God: The Implicit Theology of Orwell's 1984."  In Beyond 1984, ed. Ermel Stepp, Jr. (Huntington, WV: Marshall University, 1985), 227-30.

Langbaum.  “The Dynamic Unity of In Memorium.” (unpubl.) [abstract]

Langer, Susanne K.  Feeling and Form:  A Theory of Art.  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. [Ch. 16 The Great Literary Forms, Ch. 17 The Dramatic Illusion, Ch. 18 The Great Dramatic Forms:  The Comic Rhythm, Ch. 19 The Great Dramatic Forms:  The Tragic Rhythm]

Levy, Eric.  “Would it Were Not So: Hypothetical Alternatives in Hamlet.” Literature and Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics 11 (2001): 33-46.

Lewis, Laurence M.  "Wallace Stevens and the Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead."  Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Texas at Austin, 1979.

Meland, Bernard E.  “Kinsmen of the Wild: Religious Moods in Modern American Poetry.” The Sewanee Review. (October 1933). [abstract]

Middleton, Darren J.N.  "Creative Transformation: John Cobb's Christology and the Writings of Nikos Katzantzakis."  (unpubl.)

_____. "Process Theology and Contemporary Literatures: Rubbing (Differently Structued) Texts Together." (unpubl.)

_____.  God, Literature and Process Thought.  Ashgate Publishing Company: Burlington, 2002.[abstract]

_____.  "Nikos Katzantzakis and Process Theology: Thinking Theologically in a Relational World."  Journal of Modern Greek Studies 12 (1994): 57-74.

_____.  Novel Theology:  Nikos Kazantzakis’s Encounter with Whiteheadian Process Theism. Macon, GA:  Mercer University Press, 2000. [abstract]

_____, and Peter Bien, eds. God's Struggler: Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1996. [abstract]

Miller, Rand.  "The Being and Becoming of Frankenstein." Substance 60 (1989): 60-74.

Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino. “Poetry, Prophecy, and Power.” Religious Education 93, no. 3 (Summer 1998): 268-87.

_____.  “Multicultural Connections: Pain and Promise.” Creative Transformation 2, no. 2 (Winter 1993) 1, 3.

Nobuhara, Tiokiyuki. "The Artistic Theology in F.M. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment."  Bulletin of Keiwa College 4(Feb. 28, 1995): 119-52.

Northrop, F. S. C. Man, Nature, and God. New York: Trident Press/Simon and Schuster, 1962. [abstract]

Odin, Steve.  "The Penumbral Shadow: A Whiteheadian Perspective on the Yugen Style of Art and Literature in Japanese Aesthetics."  Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 12, no.1 (March 1985): 63-90. [Aesthetics, Japan, Literature]

Ono, Frances.  "Life Songs: Prose Poems," 1980. (2955 E. Gilbert St., Fresno, CA 93721.)

Park, Kyung Il.  “T. S. Eliot:  A Philosophical Genealogy.”  Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society of Korea 10 (2001):  67-96.

Pilon, Juliana Geran. "Whitehead and Solzhenitsyn on Freedom and Harmony." (PS 7:2 Abstract)

Price, Lucien. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehad. London: Max Reinhardt, 1954. [abstract]

Randolph, Robert M.  “The Novum as Meaning.”  Process Studies 31, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2002): 138-155. [Aesthetics, Creativity, God Concepts, Literature]

Settle, Ronald.  "A Month Before Christmas and a Day After Darwin." Process Studies 17, no.2 (Summer 1988): 127-30.

Sia, M. S. The Fountain Arethuse-A Novel Set in the University Town of Leuven. Sussex, England: The Book Guild Ltd, 1997. [abstract]

_____. Philosophy in Context. Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2006. [abstract

Simpson, Donald N. "A Pastoral Poem in the Process Mode." Pacific Theo­logical Review 29, no.3 (Spring 1986): 29-36.

Stallknecht, N. P.  Strange Seas of Thought.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1977. (Whitehead and Wordsworth, pp. 81-83.) [abstract]

Stone, Else and Kurt Stone. The Writings of Elliott Carter: An American Composer Looks at Modern Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. [abstract]

Thompson, William Irwin. "Collapsed Universe and Structured Poem: An Essay in Whiteheadian Criticism."  Publications in the Humanities 77 (1967).

Todd, Douglas. Brave Souls: Writers and Artists Wrestle with God, Love, Death, and the Things That Matter. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1996. [abstract]

Tracy, David. Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope. SanFrancisco: Harper & Row, 1987. [abstract]

Ulfers, Friedrich.  “Friedrich Nietzsche as Bridge from Nineteenth-Century Atomistic Science to Process Philosophy in Twentieth-Century Physics, Literature, and Ethics.” West Virginia University Philological Papers. (Fall 2002): 21-9.

Von Hallberg, Robert.  “Olson, Whitehead, and the Objectivists.” Boundary 2, no. ˝ (Autumn 1973-Winter 1974): 85-112.

Walker, Theodore, Jr. “Review: The Fountain Arethuse:  A Novel Set In The University Town of Leuven, by Marian F. Sia and Santiago Sia.”  In Process Studies 28, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 148-9.

Wood, Forrest, Jr. "Romantic Poetry, Process Philosophy, and Modern Science: Possibilities of a New World View." Christianity & Literature 38 (1988): 33-41.

Wyman, Mary A.  The Lure for Feeling in the Creative Process. NY: Philosophical Lib, 1960.  [abstract]

_____.  "Whitehead's Philosophy of Science in the Light of Wordsworth's Poetry." Philosophy of Science 23 (1956):  283-96.