| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 194 pages) |
| Series |
20/21 |
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20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: One. Believing in Literature -- Eisenhower, Salinger, St. Jacques Derrida -- Two. Supernatural Formalism in the Sixties -- Ginsberg, Chant, Glossolalia -- Three. Latin Mass of Language -- Vatican II, Catholic Media, Don DeLillo -- Four. Bible and Illiterature -- Bible Criticism, McCarthy and Morrison, Illiterate Readers -- Five. Literary Practice of Belief -- Lived Religion, Marilynne Robinson, Left Behind |
| Summary |
How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious val |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Religion in literature.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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RELIGION -- General.
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American literature
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Religion and literature
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Religion in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400834914 |
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1400834910 |
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0691135088 |
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9780691135083 |
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069114575X |
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9780691145754 |
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