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Confronting Evil : The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature /

Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literatureholds that the concept of evil is central to the psychology of secularism. Drawing on notions of secularization as a phenomenon of ambivalence or dualism in which religion continues to exist alongside secularity in exertin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Powers, Scott M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Writing against theodicy: secularization in Baudelaire's poetry and critical essays
  • 2 The mourning of god and the ironies of secularization in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris
  • 3 Sublimation and conversion in Zola and Huysmans
  • 4 The staging of doubt: Zola and Huysmans on Lourdes
  • 5 Religious and secular conversions: transformations in Celine's medical perspective on evil
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.