| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 194 pages). |
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20/21 |
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20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: One. Believing in Literature -- Eisenhower, Salinger, St. Jacques Derrida -- Two. Supernatural Formalism in the Sixties -- Ginsberg, Chant, Glossolalia -- Three. Latin Mass of Language -- Vatican II, Catholic Media, Don DeLillo -- Four. Bible and Illiterature -- Bible Criticism, McCarthy and Morrison, Illiterate Readers -- Five. Literary Practice of Belief -- Lived Religion, Marilynne Robinson, Left Behind. |
| Summary |
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 val. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Religion in literature.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Twentieth century.
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American literature.
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History.
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History and criticism.
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Religion and literature.
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United States.
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Literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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RELIGION -- General.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Postmodernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01073181
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Religion and literature. (OCoLC)fst01093839
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Religion in literature. (OCoLC)fst01732559
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hungerford, Amy. Postmodern belief. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691145754 (DLC) 2009043864 (OCoLC)457772931 |
| Standard No. |
9786612569357 |
| ISBN |
9781400834914 (electronic bk.) |
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1400834910 (electronic bk.) |
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