The new atheist novel : fiction, philosophy and polemic after 9/11 / / Arthur Bradley and Andrew Tate

• Autore: Bradley Arthur
• Pubblicazione: London ; New York, : Continuum, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (147 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.9209382118
• Soggetto topico: Religion and literature; Atheism and literature
• Persona (resp. second.): TateAndrew <1971->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. Ian McEwan's End of the World Blues -- 2. Martin Amis and the War for Cliché -- 3. Salman Rushdie and the 'Quarrel Over God' -- 4. Philip Pullman's Republic of Heaven -- Conclusion
• Sommario/riassunto: "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; 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The new atheist novel
• ISBN: 1-4725-4283-5; 1-283-27204-0; 9786613272041; 1-4411-5792-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808296803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New directions in religion and literature.