Acknowledgements Introduction: Necessary Negotiations PART I: INTO THIS WORLD: BODY AND SPIRIT IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Embracing the Fall: Reconfiguring Redemption in Jim Harrison's The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Dalva and The Road Home Writing Back Through the Body: The Communion of Flesh and Spirit in the Work of Mary Swander Always Becoming: The Nature of Transcendence in the Poetry of Mary Oliver PART II: STORY AND POSSIBILITY: NARRATING MAPPING...