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Literary secularism : religion and modernity in twentieth-century fiction /
Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction shows the path to secularization in the modern novel in comparative perspective. Writers as diverse as George Eliot, James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Taslima Nasrin, and James Wood, have all struggled with religious or...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle :
Cambridge Scholars Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The critical tradition and the modern novel: from Daniel Dafoe to James Wood
- George Eliot: British secularism, Jewish assimilation and Daniel Deronda
- Holy water, fluid mondernity: Rabindranath Tagore and Hindu reform
- Diasporas and promised lands: Ireland, Israel, and Joyce's Ulysses
- The elusive ideal of secular writing: V.S. Naipaul and literary secularism in India
- The ambiguous relationship between men and angels: Salman Rushdie's daemonic secularism
- The myriad failures of religious law: the uniform civil code debate and Indian feminism
- Literary secularism after 9/11: Philip Roth's The plot against America and Orhan Pamuk's Snow.