Sacred estrangement : the rhetoric of conversion in modern American autobiography /

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Sacred Estrangement analyzes certain works by important American writers and thinkers in the context of the "rhetoric of conversion." Such analysis is especially valuable because it provides a reliable index of the relationship between the self and larger communities. Traditionally, "...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dorsey, Peter A., 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
Christianity and literature > United States.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
Conversion in literature.
Autobiography.
Autobiographies as Topic
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Christianisme et littérature > États-Unis.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Rhétorique.
Conversion dans la littérature.
Autobiographie.
autobiography (genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
American prose literature
Authors, American > Biography
Autobiography
Christianity and literature
Conversion in literature
English language > Rhetoric
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : conversion and the autobiographical tradition
  • The Christian framework
  • Dividing the word : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the consequences of secularization
  • Conversion to pragmatism : The varieties of religious experience and The education of Henry Adams
  • Conversion to signification : the autobiography of Henry James
  • Conversion and separation : Edith Wharton's Backward glance and Ellen Glasgow's Woman within
  • The varieties of black experience : Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road and the autobiography of Richard Wright
  • Afterword : conversion and cultural poetics.

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