Northrop Frye and American Fiction / / Claude Le Fustec.
Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences. Inspired by recent philosophical thinking on post-secularism and by Northrop Frye’s theorizing on the connec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Re-enchantment, Postsecularity, 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 Postsecular Imagination in Postmodern Times
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index