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Faith and Fiction : a Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan.

Is it possible to write an artistically respectable and theoretically convincing religious novel in a non-religious age? Up to now, there has been no substantial application of theological criticism to the works of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan, the two most important Canadian novelists before...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pell, Barbara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
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Sumario:Is it possible to write an artistically respectable and theoretically convincing religious novel in a non-religious age? Up to now, there has been no substantial application of theological criticism to the works of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan, the two most important Canadian novelists before 1960. Yet both were religious writers during the period when Canada entered the modern, non-religious era, and both greatly influenced the development of our literature. MacLennan's journey from Calvinism to Christian existentialism is documented in his essays and seven novels, most fully in The.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (153 pages)
ISBN:9780889206489
0889206481