Fundamentalism and literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer
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| Titolo: |
Fundamentalism and literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9382 |
| Soggetto topico: | Religion in literature |
| Religion and literature | |
| Religious fundamentalism | |
| English literature - History and criticism | |
| American literature - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
Pesso-MiquelCatherine
StierstorferKlaus
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fundamentalism and literature |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36136-4 |
| 9786611361365 | |
| 0-230-60186-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451197703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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