Fundamentalism and Literature / / edited by C. Pesso-Miquel, K. Stierstorfer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969787103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• ISBN: 9786611361365; 9781281361363; 1281361364; 9780230601864; 0230601863
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Pesso-MiquelCatherine; StierstorferKlaus
• Disciplina: 820.9382
• Soggetti: Religion - Philosophy; America - Literatures; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Middle Eastern literature; Islam; Philosophy of Religion; North American Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Middle Eastern 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 (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.