LEADER 04572nam 22007091c 450 001 9910808296803321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-4283-5 010 $a1-283-27204-0 010 $a9786613272041 010 $a1-4411-5792-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472542830 035 $a(CKB)2550000000044742 035 $a(EBL)766033 035 $a(OCoLC)741690116 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000524421 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347437 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524421 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10547009 035 $a(PQKB)11369638 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC766033 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL766033 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495202 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327204 035 $a(OCoLC)893336038 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257057 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9781472542830BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000044742 100 $a20140929d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe new atheist novel $efiction philosophy and polemic after 9/11 $fArthur Bradley and Andrew Tate 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon $aNew York $cContinuum $d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (147 p.) 225 0 $aNew directions in religion and literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-4429-6 311 $a0-8264-4629-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. Ian McEwan's End of the World Blues -- 2. Martin Amis and the War for Cliche? -- 3. Salman Rushdie and the 'Quarrel Over God' -- 4. Philip Pullman's Republic of Heaven -- Conclusion 330 $a"The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. For McEwan and his contemporaries, the contemporary novel represents a new front in the ideological war against religion, religious fundamentalism and, after 9/11, religious terror: the novel apparently stands for everything - freedom, individuality, rationality and even a secular experience of the transcendental - that religion seeks to overthrow. In this book, Bradley and Tate offer a genealogy of the New Atheist Novel: where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future. What is it? How does it dramatise the war between belief and non-belief? To what extent does it represent a genuine ideological alternative to the religious imaginary or does it merely repeat it in secularised form? This fascinating study offers an incisive critique of this contemporary testament of literary belief and unbelief."--Bloomsbury Publishing 330 8 $aThe New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. For McEwan and his contemporaries, the contemporary novel represents a new front in the ideological war against religion, religious fundamentalism and, after 9/11, religious terror: the novel apparently stands for everything - freedom, individuality, rationality and even a secular experience of the transcendental - that religion seeks to overthrow. In this book, Bradley and Tate offer a genealogy of the New Atheist Novel: where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future. What is it? How does it dramatise the war between belief and non-belief? To what extent does it represent a genuine ideological alternative to the religious imaginary or does it merely repeat it in secularised form? This fascinating study offers an incisive critique of this contemporary testament of literary belief and unbelief. 410 0$aNew directions in religion and literature. 606 $aReligion and literature 606 $2Literary studies: from c 1900 - 606 $aAtheism and literature 615 0$aReligion and literature. 615 0$aAtheism and literature. 676 $a823.9209382118 700 $aBradley$b Arthur$01595047 702 $aTate$b Andrew$f1971- 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808296803321 996 $aThe new atheist novel$94206882 997 $aUNINA