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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524890203321

Autore

Haddox Thomas F (Thomas Fredrick)

Titolo

Hard Sayings : The Rhetorics of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction / / Thomas F. Haddox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8142-8063-3

0-8142-7008-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 225 p. )

Collana

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies

Disciplina

813/.54093823

Soggetti

Christianity in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction -- Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience -- Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark -- John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism -- Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament -- The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson -- Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.