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Love and good reasons : postliberal approaches to Christian ethics and literature / Fritz Oehlschlaeger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oehlschlaeger, Fritz.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Christianity and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Christianity and literature.
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Christian ethics in literature.
- Ethics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study seeks to articulate a particular moral, Christian vision and discover what it entails for reading texts; it tries to bring literary criticism and Christian ethics into discussion with one another.
- Contents:
- Literary criticism and Christian ethics in service to one another
- Toward a Christian ethics of reading, or, why we cannot be done with Bartleby
- The "best blessing of existence": "conscious worth" in Emma
- Honor, faithfulness, and community in Anthony Trollope's The warden and He knew he was right
- The "very temple of authorised love": Henry James and The portrait of a lady
- A light that has been there from the beginning: Stephen Crane and the Gospel of John
- Afterword: postliberal Christian scholarship: an engagement with Rorty and Stout.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920677
- 9781282920675
- 1282920677
- 9780822384670
- 0822384671
- OCLC:
- 850219237
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