Postmodern Belief : : American Literature and Religion since 1960 / / Amy Hungerford.
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 b...
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Hungerford, Amy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Postmodern Belief : American Literature and Religion since 1960 / Amy Hungerford. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010] ©2010 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 20/21 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Belief in Meaninglessness -- Chapter One. Believing in Literature -- Chapter Two. Supernatural Formalism in the Sixties -- Chapter Three. The Latin Mass of Language -- Chapter Four. The Bible and llliterature -- Chapter Five. The Literary Practice of Belief -- CONCLUSION: The End of The Road, Devil on the Rise -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg's chant-infused 1960s poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy's prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison's fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in understanding religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act. Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) American literature 20th century History and criticism. Postmodernism (Literature). Religion and literature United States History 20th century. Religion in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691145754 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834914 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400834914 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400834914.jpg |
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