Longing for an Absent God : Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction /

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Longing for an Absent God unveils the powerful role of faith and doubt in the American literary tradition. Nick Ripatrazone explores how two major strands of Catholic writers--practicing and cultural--intertwine and sustain each other. Ripatrazone explores the writings of devout American Catholic wr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ripatrazone, Nicholas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Catholics > United States > Intellectual life.
Catholic fiction > History and criticism.
Christianity and literature > United States.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > Catholic authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : does belief matter in fiction?
  • The half-hearted and the corrupt : Graham Greene and Flannery O'Connor
  • Present God : the fiction of Walker Percy and Andre Dubus
  • Cultural piety : Don DeLillo's Catholicism without belief
  • God in the machine : Thomas Pynchon
  • A story of the body : Toni Morrison
  • A violent testament : Cormac McCarthy
  • Two cultures, two faiths : Louise Erdrich
  • Literary faith in a secular age.

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