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Barge, Laura Inez Deavenport.

Exploring worldviews in literature : from William Wordsworth to Edward Albee / Laura Barge. - 1 online resource (175 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175).

Numinous spaces in British literature from William Wordsworth to Samuel Beckett -- Jesus figures in American literature from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Edward Albee -- Using Bakhtin's definitions to discover ethical voices in Solzhenitsyn and Tolstoy -- René Girard's categories of scapegoats in literature of the American South -- Hopkins's metaphysics of nature as sacred disclosure -- The Book of Job as mirrored in Hopkins's metaphysics -- Beckett's mythos of the absence of God.

ISBN: 9780891128045 0891128042

Source: 22573/ctv30wv27t JSTOR

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Christianity in literature.
Christian ethics in literature.
Christianity--Philosophy.
Philosophy and religion in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
Christianisme dans la littérature.
Christianisme--Philosophie.
Littérature anglaise--Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
American literature
Christian ethics in literature
Christianity in literature
Christianity--Philosophy
English literature
Philosophy and religion in literature

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PR145 / .B37 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/382