Sacred Estrangement : : The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography / / Peter A. Dorsey.
Sacred Estrangement analyzes certain works by important American writers and thinkers in the context of the ";rhetoric of conversion."; Such analysis is especially valuable because it provides a reliable index of the relationship between the self and larger communities. Traditionally, &quo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION Conversion and the Autobiographical Tradition
- 1 THE CHRISTIAN FRAMEWORK
- 2 DIVIDING THE WORD Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Consequences of Secularization
- 3 CONVERSION TO PRAGMATISM The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Education of Henry Adams
- 4 CONVERSION TO SIGNIFICATION The Autobiography of Henry James
- 5 CONVERSION AND SEPARATION Edith Wharton's Backward Glance and Ellen Glasgow's Woman Within
- 6 THE VARIETIES OF BLACK EXPERIENCE Zora Neale Hurston' s Dust Tracks on a Road and the Autobiography of Richard Wright
- AFTERWORD Conversion and Cultural Poetics
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX