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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451197703321

Titolo

Fundamentalism and literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36136-4

9786611361365

0-230-60186-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Pesso-MiquelCatherine

StierstorferKlaus

Disciplina

820.9382

Soggetti

Religion in literature

Religion and literature

Religious fundamentalism

English literature - History and criticism

American literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature; Part I: The Many Guises of Fundamentalism: Expanding Visions; 2 ""To the Shore of Tripoli"": Milton, Islam, and the Attacks on America and Spain; 3 Jonathan Swift and the Idea of the Fundamental Church; 4 The ""Aesthetics"" of Fundamentalism in Recent Jewish Fiction in English; Part II: Beyond the Binary: Literary Interventions in Polarization; 5 Deconstructing Fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album; 6 From Enlightenment to the Prison of Light: Reverting to Parsi Fundamentalism in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters

7 Doubling of Parts: Arundhati Roy as Novelist and Political CriticPart III: Fundamentalism in Post/Modernist Contexts; 8 Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism; 9 Literature as the ""Schismatic Other of the Sacred Text"" or Itself Sacred? The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi; 10 Never Better than Late: The Left Behind Series and the Incongruities of Fundamentalist Idealisms; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index;



A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English. Carefully selected case studies and surveys document an unexpected richness and variety in this unlikely relationship.