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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957917103321

Autore

Gunn Giles B

Titolo

The interpretation of otherness : literature, religion, and the American imagination / / Giles Gunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1979

ISBN

1-280-52281-X

0-19-536539-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Disciplina

810/.9/31

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

Religion and literature

Religion in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Religious Use and Abuse of Literature: Notes Toward a Short History; 2. Forms of Religious Meaning in Literature; 3. The Place of the Literary Critic in Religious Studies; 4. The American Writer and the Formation of an American Mind: Literature, Culture, and Their Relation to Ultimate Values; 5. American Literature and the Imagination of Otherness; Postscript; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Studies the ways in which imaginative literature expresses religious meaning and considers the contribution of literary criticism to religious scholarship, maintaining that a reciprocity exists between literature and religion.