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The broken estate : essays on literature and belief / James Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, James, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and literature.
- Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 270 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1999]
- Summary:
- A feast for lovers of literature--one of the most brilliant and influential critics of his generation explores the connection between literature and religious belief in the life and work of a provocative range of writers.
- Contents:
- Sir Thomas More: a man for one season
- Jane Austen's heroic consciousness
- The all and the if: God and metaphor in Melville
- Half against Flaubert
- Gogol's realism
- What Chekhov meant by life
- Knut Hamsun's Christian perversions
- Virginia Woolf's mysticism
- Thomas Mann the master of the not quite
- D.H. Lawrence's occultism
- T.S. Eliot's Christian anti-Semitism
- George Steiner's unreal presence
- Isis Murdoch's philosophy of fiction
- Thomas Pynchon and the problem of allegory
- Against paranoia: the case of Don DeLillo
- John Updike's complacent God
- The monk of fornication: Philip Roth's nihilism
- Toni Morrison's false magic
- Julian Barnes and the problem of knowing too much
- W.G. Sebald's uncertainty
- The broken estate: the legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0375502173
- OCLC:
- 40135254
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