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Northrop Frye and American fiction / Claude Le Fustec.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Frye studiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442668935
  • 1442668938
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Northrop Frye and American fictionDDC classification:
  • 813/.5409 23
LOC classification:
  • PS379
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: re-enchantment, postsecularity, and the return of transendence 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 postsecular imagination in postmodern times.
Summary: 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.
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Introduction: re-enchantment, postsecularity, and the return of transendence 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 postsecular imagination in postmodern times.

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.

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