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Startling figures : encounters with American Catholic fiction /
"Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in contemporary Catholic fiction frequently struggle with doubt and fear, these works retain a bel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2023.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Studies in the Catholic imagination.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. "Surprise Me": Going inside the "Black Box" of Catholic Fiction
- 1. The "Blasting Annihilating Light" of Flannery O'Connor's Art
- 2. Disorientation and Reorientation in J. F. Powers's Fiction
- 3. Walker Percy and the End of the Modern World
- 4. Tim Gautreaux and a Postconciliar Approach to Violence
- 5. Belief and Ambiguity in the Fiction of Alice McDermott
- 6. "Life Is Rough and Death Is Coming": George Saunders and the Catholic Literary Tradition
- Epilogue. Phil Klay, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and the State of Contemporary Catholic Literature.