Postmodern belief : American literature and religion since 1960 / Amy Hungerford.

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Hungerford, Amy

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400834914
1400834910
0691135088
9780691135083
069114575X
9780691145754

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postmodern belief.DDC classification:

810/.9/005 22

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PS225 .H86 2010eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.

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.

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