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Haddox Thomas F (Thomas Fredrick) |
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Titolo |
Hard Sayings : The Rhetorics of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction / / Thomas F. Haddox |
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-8142-8063-3 |
0-8142-7008-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 225 p. ) |
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Collana |
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Literature, religion, and postsecular studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christianity in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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