Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel

Informationen zum Autor Pericles Lewis is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His past publications explore the development of modern literary forms in a period of political and social instability and include Modernism, Nationalism and the Novel (Cambridge, 2000) and The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism (Cambridge, 2007). Klappentext Considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion. Zusammenfassung The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel! Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion! through comparisons of major novelists with sociologists and psychologists from the same period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Churchgoing; 2. God's afterlife; 3. Henry James and the varieties of religious experience; 4. Marcel Proust and the elementary forms of religious life; 5. Franz Kafka and the hermeneutics of suspicion; 6. Virginia Woolf and the disenchantment of the world; 7. The burial of the dead; Select bibliography; Index; Notes.

Product details

• Authors: Pericles Lewis, Pericles (Yale University Lewis, Lewis Pericles
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521856508
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85650-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Biography, Literature and Literary studies