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Fundamentalism and Literature / edited by C. Pesso-Miquel, K. Stierstorfer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Middle Eastern literature.
- Islam.
- Philosophy of Religion.
- North American Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Middle Eastern Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Philosophy of Religion.
- North American Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Middle Eastern Literature.
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English. Carefully selected case studies and surveys document an unexpected richness and variety in this unlikely relationship.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature; Part I: The Many Guises of Fundamentalism: Expanding Visions; 2 ""To the Shore of Tripoli"": Milton, Islam, and the Attacks on America and Spain; 3 Jonathan Swift and the Idea of the Fundamental Church; 4 The ""Aesthetics"" of Fundamentalism in Recent Jewish Fiction in English; Part II: Beyond the Binary: Literary Interventions in Polarization; 5 Deconstructing Fundamentalisms in Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album; 6 From Enlightenment to the Prison of Light: Reverting to Parsi Fundamentalism in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters
- 7 Doubling of Parts: Arundhati Roy as Novelist and Political CriticPart III: Fundamentalism in Post/Modernist Contexts; 8 Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism; 9 Literature as the ""Schismatic Other of the Sacred Text"" or Itself Sacred? The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi; 10 Never Better than Late: The Left Behind Series and the Incongruities of Fundamentalist Idealisms; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361365
- 9781281361363
- 1281361364
- 9780230601864
- 0230601863
- OCLC:
- 567997608
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