Northrop Frye and American Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Claude Le Fustec is a senior lecturer in American Literature in the Department of English at Rennes 2 University. Klappentext Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison. Zusammenfassung Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-Enchantment, Post-Secularity and the Return of Transcendence in Western Culture 1. The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Imagination and the Kerygmatic Power of Sin 2. Henry James’s The Europeans: Secularity and the Descent of the Word 3. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: Modernism and the Death of the Word 4. Immanent Christianity in The Grapes of Wrath 5. “In the Name of the Lost Father”: Postsecular Mysticism in On the Road 6. “I Will Call Them My People”: Toni Morrison’s Postsecular Gospel of Self and Community Conclusion: Kerygma and the Promises of Post-Secular Imagination in Postmodern Times Notes Bibliography

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Claude Le Fustec
• Edition: University of Toronto Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 07.01.2015
• EAN: 9781442647695
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4769-5
• Pages: 248
• Thèmes: Frye Studies; Frye Studies
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée