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1 online resource. |
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| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
About this volume -- On crises of faith -- Critical contexts -- Crises of faith: an overview of critical commentary -- In memoriam A.H.H. as baptism: crises of faith and renewal through poetic tides -- The crisis of faith theme in works by Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and other writers of the Harlem Renaissance -- Close reading and the crisis of faith in Elie Wiesel's Night critical readings -- Job's crisis of faith: frustration and revelation -- John Donne's crisis of faith: the holy sonnets -- "His dying hour was gloom": crises of faith in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" -- Huckleberry Finn and the spiritual crisis of its time -- "Delivered from the womb of his purposeless splendor": Jay Gatsby and the hope of spiritual salvation inThe Great Gatsby -- Ernest Hemingway's books of common prayer -- Crises of faith in the poetry of Wilfred Owen -- Original sin, crises of faith, and the possibility of redemption in All the king's men -- Crises of faith in the short fiction of Flannery O'Connor. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Rooted religiously in the texts of the Old and New Testament, the term crisis of faith is a common phrase that evokes intense spiritual strife and doubt, the eternal struggle between good and evil. This volume presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme. |
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Faith in literature.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Faith in literature. (OCoLC)fst00919968
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Literature -- Theory, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01353577
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Evans, Robert C., 1955-
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| ISBN |
1429838418 (electronic bk.) |
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9781429838412 (electronic bk.) |
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