Postmodern Belief : American Literature and Religion since 1960 /

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How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hungerford, Amy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
American literature.
RELIGION > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Postmodernisme (Litterature)
Religion dans la litterature.
Religion et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Religion and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: One. Believing in Literature
  • Eisenhower, Salinger, St. Jacques Derrida
  • Two. Supernatural Formalism in the Sixties
  • Ginsberg, Chant, Glossolalia
  • Three. Latin Mass of Language
  • Vatican II, Catholic Media, Don DeLillo
  • Four. Bible and Illiterature
  • Bible Criticism, McCarthy and Morrison, Illiterate Readers
  • Five. Literary Practice of Belief
  • Lived Religion, Marilynne Robinson, Left Behind.

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