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Postmodern belief : American literature and religion since 1960 / Amy Hungerford.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 194 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400834914
  • 1400834910
  • 0691135088
  • 9780691135083
  • 069114575X
  • 9780691145754
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postmodern belief.DDC classification:
  • 810/.9/005 22
LOC classification:
  • PS225 .H86 2010eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)321430

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.

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.

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.

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