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.

書誌詳細
第一著者: Le Fustec, Claude (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Toronto : University of Toronto Press [2015]
シリーズ:Frye studies.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287v54
目次:
  • 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.