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035			_a(DE-B1597)446999
035			_a(OCoLC)979749453
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aHungerford, Amy _eautore
245	1	0	_aPostmodern Belief : _bAmerican Literature and Religion since 1960 / _cAmy Hungerford.
250			_aCourse Book
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2010]
264		4	_c©2010
300			_a1 online resource (240 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tINTRODUCTION: Belief in Meaninglessness -- _tChapter One. Believing in Literature -- _tChapter Two. Supernatural Formalism in the Sixties -- _tChapter Three. The Latin Mass of Language -- _tChapter Four. The Bible and llliterature -- _tChapter Five. The Literary Practice of Belief -- _tCONCLUSION: The End of The Road, Devil on the Rise -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aHow 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 value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg's chant-infused 1960s poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy's prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison's fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in understanding religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act. Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPostmodernism (Literature).
650		0	_aReligion and literature _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aReligion in literature.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834914
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