Hard Sayings The Rhetorics of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction / Thomas F. Haddox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick)

Series:

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity in literature.

Robinson, Marilynne--Criticism and interpretation.

Gordon, Mary, 1949---Criticism and interpretation.

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation.

Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation.

Spark, Muriel--Criticism and interpretation.

O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 225 p. )

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction

Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience

Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark

John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism

Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament

The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson

Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8142-8063-3

0-8142-7008-5

OCLC:

867740988

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access