Startling Figures : : Encounters with American Catholic Fiction.
Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age, and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in contemporary Catholic fiction frequently struggle with doubt and fear, these works retain a belief i...
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