| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 270 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Sir Thomas More: a man for one season -- Jane Austen's heroic consciousness -- The all and the if: God and metaphor in Melville -- Half against Flaubert -- Gogol's realism -- What Chekhov meant by life -- Knut Hamsun's Christian perversions -- Virginia Woolf's mysticism -- Thomas Mann the master of the not quite -- D.H. Lawrence's occultism -- T.S. Eliot's Christian anti-Semitism -- George Steiner's unreal presence -- Isis Murdoch's philosophy of fiction -- Thomas Pynchon and the problem of allegory -- Against paranoia: the case of Don DeLillo -- John Updike's complacent God -- The monk of fornication: Philip Roth's nihilism -- Toni Morrison's false magic -- Julian Barnes and the problem of knowing too much -- W.G. Sebald's uncertainty -- The broken estate: the legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold. |
| Subject |
Religion and literature.
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Religion and literature. |
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Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| ISBN |
0375502173 |
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