God and self in the confessional novel / John D. Sykes, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sykes, John, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confession in literature.

Guilt in literature.

Self (Philosophy) in literature.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 157 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

God & self in the confessional novel

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

"God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the classic confessional texts of Augustine and Rousseau. Employing this framework, John D. Sykes, Jr. examines Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Percy's Lancelot, and McEwan's Atonement to investigate the evolution of confession and guilt in literature from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Augustine and Rousseau: Confessio laudis, confessio peccatorum, and the nature of the self

The sorrows of young Werther: confessions without confession

Notes from underground: self-deception and the dialogic self

Lancelot: dialogic consciousness and the triadic self

Atonement: the novel's confessional limit

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Sykes, John, 1952- God and self in the confessional novel.

ISBN:

3319913212

9783319913216

OCLC:

1030906172