Claude Le Fustec

Northrop Frye and American Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647695
• ISBN-10: 1442647698
• Artikelnr.: 41029253

Autorenporträt

By Claude Le Fustec

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Re-Enchantment, Post-Secularity and the Return of
Transcendence 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 Post-Secular Imagination in
Postmodern Times
Notes
Bibliography