TY - GEN T1 - A theology of sense : John Updike, embodiment, and late twentieth-century American literature T2 - Literature, religion, and postsecular studies. A1 - Dill, Scott (Lecturer in English) LA - English PP - Columbus PB - The Ohio State University Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1057472019 AB - Scott Dill's A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature brings together theology, aesthetics, and the body, arguing that Updike, a central figure in post-1945 American literature, deeply embeds in his work questions of the body and the senses with questions of theology. Dill offers new understandings not only of the work of Updike--which is importantly being revisited since the author's death in 2009 - but also new understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, religion, and physical experience. Dill explores Updike's unique literary legacy in order to argue for a genuinely postsecular theory of aesthetic experience. Each chapter takes up one of the five senses and its relation to broader theoretical concerns: affect, subjectivity, ontology, ethics, and theology. While placing Updike's work in relation to other late twentieth-century American writers, Dill explains their notions of embodiment and uses them to render a new account of postsecular aesthetics. No other novelist has portrayed mere sense experience as carefully, as extensively, or as theologically - repeatedly turning to the doctrine of creation as his stylistic justification. Across this examination of his many stories, novels, poems, and essays, Dill proves that Updike forces us to reconsider the power of literature to revitalize sense experience as a theological question. CN - PS3571.P4 SN - 9780814276600 SN - 0814276601 SN - 9780814213834 SN - 9780814255001 KW - Updike, John : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Updike, John KW - American literature : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Religion and literature. KW - Aesthetics in literature. KW - Littérature américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Religion et littérature. KW - Esthétique dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : General. KW - Aesthetics in literature KW - American literature KW - Religion and literature KW - 1900-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -