Northrop Frye and American Fiction /

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Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Le Fustec, Claude (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Frye, Northrop.
Frye, Northrop > Criticism and interpretation.
Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.
Postsecularism.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Postsecularisation.
Transcendance (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: re-enchantment, postsecularity, and the return of transendence in western culture
  • 1. The Scarlet Letter: puritan imagination and the kerygmatic power of sin
  • 2. Henry James's The Europeans: secularity and the descent of the word
  • 3. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: modernism and the death of the word
  • 4. Immanent Christianity in The Grapes of Wrath
  • 5. "In the name of the lost father": postsecular mysticism in on the road
  • 6. "I will call them my people": Toni Morrison's postsecular gospel of self and community
  • Conclusion: Kerygma and the promises of postsecular imagination in postmodern times.

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