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Northrop Frye and American fiction / Claude Le Fustec.
LIBRA PS379 L37 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Fustec, Claude, author.
- Series:
- Frye studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frye, Northrop.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Frye, Northrop--Criticism and interpretation.
- Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.
- Postsecularism.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction: re-enchantment, postsecularity, and the return of transendence 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 postsecular imagination in postmodern times.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442647695
- 1442647698
- OCLC:
- 879584236
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