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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. History, Hope, and Historical Novels: Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian -- Christian Hope and Historical Novels: Current and Critical Contexts -- Postmodernism, Marxism, and the Historical Novel: An Overview -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2. Frank Kermode, Jürgen Moltmann, and Three Modern Derivatives of Christian Hope -- Kermode and the Sense of an Ending -- Moltmann and the Modern Derivatives of Christian Hope |
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Types of Hope and the Historic Character of Reality -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3. Postmodern Historical Novels: Idealistic Hope and Ironic Hope -- Romance and Three Types of Kairos Moments -- Ironic Hope and the Religion of Despair -- Idealistic Hope: Historical Understanding and the Possibility of Eros -- Irony and Realism: Historical Understanding and Structural Realities -- Ironic and Idealistic Hopes and the Future of the Novel -- Reflections -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4. Marxist Historical Novels: Utopic Hope -- Jameson and Historical Fictions of the Future |
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Modern Progress and its Necrofuture -- The Promise of Mutual Aid and the Unity of Time -- Religious Utopias Amidst the Collapse of the United States -- Reflections -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5. Moltmann on Eschatological Historiography and the Modern Church -- Moltmann's Eschatological View of History -- Toward an Eschatological Historiography -- A Church Disburdened of Historical Understanding -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6. Marilynne Robinson's Gilead Series: Historical Novels for a Disburdened Church -- Gilead: Historical Understanding and Loving the Enemy |
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Home: Complacency, Judgment, and Thwarted Possibilities of the Past -- Lila: The Outsider and Hopeful Remembering -- Jack: The Widening of Social Vision and the Contradictoriness of Time -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Historical fiction-History and criticism
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Philosophy, Marxist, in literature.
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Historical fiction
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Philosophy, Marxist, in literature
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000594454 |
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1000594459 |
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