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1 online resource (186 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The critical tradition and the modern novel: from Daniel Dafoe to James Wood -- George Eliot: British secularism, Jewish assimilation and Daniel Deronda -- Holy water, fluid mondernity: Rabindranath Tagore and Hindu reform -- Diasporas and promised lands: Ireland, Israel, and Joyce's Ulysses -- The elusive ideal of secular writing: V.S. Naipaul and literary secularism in India -- The ambiguous relationship between men and angels: Salman Rushdie's daemonic secularism -- The myriad failures of religious law: the uniform civil code debate and Indian feminism -- Literary secularism after 9/11: Philip Roth's The plot against America and Orhan Pamuk's Snow. |
| Summary |
Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction shows the path to secularization in the modern novel in comparative perspective. Writers as diverse as George Eliot, James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Taslima Nasrin, and James Wood, have all struggled with religious orthodoxy in their personal lives, and are some of the most important and representative ""secular"" writers in the modern world canon. But their novels, which are far more than mere anti-religious man ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Religion and literature.
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Religion and literature. |
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Secularism in literature.
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Secularism in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Singh, Amardeep. Literary Secularism : Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2006 9781847180490 |
| ISBN |
9781443802697 (electronic book) |
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1443802697 (electronic book) |
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1282042971 |
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9781282042971 |
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