Hungerford Postmodern Belief

American Literature and Religion since 1960
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3491-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 240 Seiten

Reihe: 20/21

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hungerford, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

INTRODUCTION: Belief in Meaninglessness xiii

CHAPTER ONE: Believing in Literature

Eisenhower, Salinger, St. Jacques Derrida 1

CHAPTER TWO: Supernatural Formalism in the Sixties

Ginsberg, Chant, Glossolalia 28

CHAPTER THREE: The Latin Mass of Language

Vatican II, Catholic Media, Don DeLillo 52

CHAPTER FOUR: The Bible and Illiterature

Bible Criticism, McCarthy and Morrison, Illiterate Readers 76

CHAPTER FIVE: The Literary Practice of Belief

Lived Religion, Marilynne Robinson, Left Behind 107

CONCLUSION: The End of The Road, Devil on the Rise 132

Notes 141

Bibliography 175

Index 187

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Hungerford is professor of English at Yale University. She is the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification.