Northrop Frye and American fiction /

Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Le Fustec, Claude (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Toronto : University of Toronto Press [2015]
سلاسل:Frye studies.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287v54
جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction: re-enchantment, postsecularity, and the return of transendence 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.