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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press
[2015]
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| Series: | Frye studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287v54 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.