TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hungerford,Amy
TI  - Postmodern belief: American literature and religion since 1960 
T2  - 20/21
SN  - 9781400834914
AV  - PS225 .H86 2010eb
U1  - 810/.9/005 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Religion and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
KW  - Littérature américaine
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Religion et littérature
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Religion dans la littérature
KW  - Postmodernisme (Littérature)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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