| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 194 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
20/21
|
|
20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious val. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Religion and literature. |
|
United States. |
|
History. |
|
Religion in literature.
|
|
Religion in literature. |
|
Postmodernism (Literature)
|
|
Postmodernism (Literature) |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
History.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hungerford, Amy. Postmodern belief. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691145754 (DLC) 2009043864 (OCoLC)457772931 |
| ISBN |
9781400834914 (electronic book) |
|
1400834910 (electronic book) |
|
0691135088 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780691135083 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
069114575X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780691145754 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780691135083 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780691145754 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612569357 |
|
