| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 300 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Mark Bosco, SJ -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Patterns of Faith in the Catholic Literary Imagination -- Some Additional Clarifications -- A Glance Ahead -- Chapter One. A Pattern Of Convergence: Faith, Fiction, and Fragment -- What Is Faith? -- Catholic Fictional Works as Theological Texts -- Encounters with Doubt: Greene's Monsignor Quixote -- Fragments of Faith in the Catholic Literary Imagination -- Chapter Two. A Pattern of Contrast: Grace and Faith in Modern and Contemporary Short Stories |
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Secular Faith Overturned: O'Connor's "The Displaced Person" and "The Enduring Chill" -- Contemporary Fiction's Postmodern Context -- Uncertain Faith: Grace in the Contemporary Short Stories of L'Heureux, Klay, and Quade -- Chapter Three. Faith as Resistance To Evil -- Spark's Hidden Sacramental Imagination in The Girls of Slender Means -- Conversion from the Perspective of Evil in Percy's Lancelot -- Can Evil's Existence be Defended? -- Innocent Suffering in L'Heureux's The Shrine at Altamira: Hope or Despair? -- Chapter Four. Sacrifice And Grace |
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Sacrifice as Vicarious Suffering: Greene's The Power and the Glory -- Martyrs, Both Reluctant and Willing: Solidarity in Sacrifice in Endo's The Samurai -- Sacrifice and the Suffering of Children: Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them -- Chapter Five. Woundedness And Community -- Community as a Source of Grace -- The Turn toward Mystical Community: O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away -- Community Reconfigured: Woundedness in Gordon's The Company of Women -- The Surprise of Grace-Filled Community: A Sacramental Reading of Morrison's Paradise |
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Chapter Six. Sacramentality in Catholic Fiction: Some Thoughts on a Pattern of Contrast -- A Subtle Sacramental Correction: Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- Grace Both Extraordinary and Ordinary: Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy -- Searching for Glimmers of Sacramentality: McDermott's The Ninth Hour -- A Step Back from the Pattern of Contrast: Some Final Remarks -- Conclusion. A Pattern of Convergence Revisited: A Theological Reflection -- Snapshots of Faith in Western Theology -- A Pattern of Convergence: Some Final Observations -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Through an exploration of more than a dozen Catholic authors' novels and short stories, the author argues that Catholic fiction encourages the reader to reflect upon the way faith informs one's affections, and how a person conceives and interacts with the world as embodied beings. Catholic fiction portrays faith-at its most fundamental, often unconscious, level-as an act of the imagination. Authors discussed include Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Muriel Spark, Toni Morrison, Alice McDermott, and Uwem Akpan"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2023) |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- In literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Catholic Church. fast (OCoLC)fst00531720 |
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American fiction -- Catholic authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- Catholic authors -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Catholic fiction -- History and criticism
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Theology in literature.
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American fiction -- Catholic authors.
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Catholic fiction.
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Literature.
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Theology in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bosco, Mark, author of foreword.
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| LC no. |
2023035640 |
| ISBN |
9780813236667 |
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0813236665 |
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