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The new believers : religion and the contemporary novel / Jack Dudley, Mount St Mary's University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dudley, Jack (Professor of English), Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
- Atwood, Margaret.
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation.
- Coetzee, J. M.
- Díaz, Junot, 1968---Criticism and interpretation.
- Díaz, Junot.
- Saunders, George, 1958---Criticism and interpretation.
- Saunders, George.
- Fiction--Religious aspects.
- Fiction.
- Religion in literature.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "The New Believers helps readers and scholars of the novel understand why novels so often feel so depressing and identifies in Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Junot Díaz, and George Saunders a new set of important writers whose novels instead use spiritual belief to imagine better, hopeful ways of being"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The new believers
- Margaret Atwood and the better story
- J. M. Coetzee, curious belief, and the life of contemplation
- Junot Díaz, cosmic vision, and radical hope
- George Saunders and the Buddhist order of compassion
- The spiritual life of the novel: ontology, subjectivity, collectivity, teleology.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-77256-2
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