What Do the Inconsolable See?

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" What Do the Inconsolable See? "
Robert Baker

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081953
Doc. No	:	LA125582
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02401003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Robert Baker
Title & Author	:	What Do the Inconsolable See? [Article]\ Robert Baker
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	24/1-2
Page No	:	132–147
Abstract	:	Wisdom is often is often said to begin with a meditation on death or, at the deepest level, with our attempt to cope with the death of another: with our passage through loss, grief, mourning, the risk of despair. Stories of loss and renewal help us to work again, love again, and walk with a lighter step again. Stories of inconsolable grief remind us that there is something absolute in loss: that we are never the same after certain losses, no matter what we tell ourselves. What do the inconsolable see? This essay takes up this question through readings of the story of Orpheus in Virgil and Rilke and the story of Ruth in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. These stories acknowledge the absolute quality of loss while at the same time disclosing a further clearing, a clearing beyond the ordinary course of things, the kind of clearing we call spiritual.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Housekeeping
Descriptor	:	loss
Descriptor	:	Marilynne Robinson
Descriptor	:	melancholy
Descriptor	:	mourning
Descriptor	:	Orpheus
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Rilke
Descriptor	:	Virgil
Descriptor	:	vision
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02401003‬