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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, William C. (William Closson), 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998.
Temas:
Spirituality in literature.
Religion in literature.
Religion and culture > Canada.
Canadian literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Spiritualité dans la littérature.
Religion dans la littérature.
Religion et culture > Canada.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
Religion and culture
Religion in literature
Spirituality in literature
Canada
Electronic books.
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Dislocating the sacred : the Protestant voice ; The Protestant voice
  • A Protestant trio : Davies, MacLennan, and Laurence
  • Imprisonment and liberation
  • How is Canadian literature "religious"?
  • The Protestant principle in English-Canadian fiction
  • A tentative conclusion
  • Relocating the sacred : the human ground of transcendence ; Eternity and transcendence
  • "Eternity" in Callaghan and MacLennan
  • The ordinary and the sacred in Mitchell and Munro
  • Divining the depths in Davies, Laurence, and Atwood
  • Conclusion
  • Nature as the locale of the sacred ; Native and Christian attitudes
  • Some typical Canadian views
  • Geography over history
  • A new direction
  • In quest of the sacred : the canoe trip ; The quest pattern
  • States of the quest
  • Transformative quest and Canadian character
  • The canoe trip as initiation rite
  • Conclusion
  • Sacred Death : the Belcher Islands Massacre ; Introduction
  • Geographical and religious backgrounds
  • Narrative of the events
  • The contemporary reaction to the murders
  • Analysis
  • A personal epilogue
  • Theodicy and the sacred : A.M. Klein and Hugh MacLennan ; Parallel dislocations
  • 'The Second Scroll' as theodicy
  • 'The Watch that Ends the Night' and selfhood
  • The everyman and the self
  • Chaos into cosmos
  • Love and the Sacred : the ambiguities of Morley Callaghan's 'Such Is My Beloved' ; Callaghan's "Certain Perceptions"
  • The two conflicting realms
  • The song of songs : love and the sacred
  • Conclusion : incarnational humanism
  • Sacred passages : Native symbols in Atwood and Engel ; The female initiation pattern
  • Atwood's 'Surfacing'
  • Engel's 'Bear'
  • Conclusion
  • Nordicity and the sacred : the journeys of Thomas York and Aritha van Herk ; The fugitive
  • The spiritual quest
  • The return to the south in 'Desireless'
  • 'No End to This Road' : Aritha van Herk
  • Mutuality and the sacred : Joy Kogawa ; From divine abandonment to human solidarity
  • Bread and stones and names in 'Obasan'
  • From silence to communion
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion.

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