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Locations of the sacred : essays on religion, literature, and Canadian culture /

Where do Canadians encounter religious meaning? Not where they used to! In ten lively and wide-ranging essays, William Closson James examines various derivations of the sacred in contemporary Canadian culture. Most of the essays focus on the religious aspects of modern Canadian English fiction -- fo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, William C. (William Closson), 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction --  |t Dislocating the sacred : the Protestant voice ;  |t The Protestant voice --  |t A Protestant trio : Davies, MacLennan, and Laurence --  |t Imprisonment and liberation --  |t How is Canadian literature "religious"? --  |t The Protestant principle in English-Canadian fiction --  |t A tentative conclusion --  |t Relocating the sacred : the human ground of transcendence ;  |t Eternity and transcendence --  |t "Eternity" in Callaghan and MacLennan --  |t The ordinary and the sacred in Mitchell and Munro --  |t Divining the depths in Davies, Laurence, and Atwood --  |t Conclusion --  |t Nature as the locale of the sacred ;  |t Native and Christian attitudes --  |t Some typical Canadian views --  |t Geography over history --  |t A new direction --  |t In quest of the sacred : the canoe trip ;  |t The quest pattern --  |t States of the quest --  |t Transformative quest and Canadian character --  |t The canoe trip as initiation rite --  |t Conclusion --  |t Sacred Death : the Belcher Islands Massacre ;  |t Introduction --  |t Geographical and religious backgrounds --  |t Narrative of the events --  |t The contemporary reaction to the murders --  |t Analysis --  |t A personal epilogue --  |t Theodicy and the sacred : A.M. Klein and Hugh MacLennan ;  |t Parallel dislocations --  |t 'The Second Scroll' as theodicy --  |t 'The Watch that Ends the Night' and selfhood --  |t The everyman and the self --  |t Chaos into cosmos --  |t Love and the Sacred : the ambiguities of Morley Callaghan's 'Such Is My Beloved' ;  |t Callaghan's "Certain Perceptions" --  |t The two conflicting realms --  |t The song of songs : love and the sacred --  |t Conclusion : incarnational humanism --  |t Sacred passages : Native symbols in Atwood and Engel ;  |t The female initiation pattern --  |t Atwood's 'Surfacing' --  |t Engel's 'Bear' --  |t Conclusion --  |t Nordicity and the sacred : the journeys of Thomas York and Aritha van Herk ;  |t The fugitive --  |t The spiritual quest --  |t The return to the south in 'Desireless' --  |t 'No End to This Road' : Aritha van Herk --  |t Mutuality and the sacred : Joy Kogawa ;  |t From divine abandonment to human solidarity --  |t Bread and stones and names in 'Obasan' --  |t From silence to communion --  |t Conclusion --  |t Conclusion. 
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