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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Contemporary literary fiction"”.
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"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age
<p>While the “spiritual” nature of contemporary literary fiction is easier to identify in the works of the outright “religious” (e.g., Marilynne Robinson), there are others traditionally viewed by the critical establishment as “secular” (e.g., Jonathan Lethem) for whom the concern is a bit more …
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'So many ways of being better': Contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help
This thesis investigates the relationship between contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help in order to illuminate key concerns around selfhood and authorship. It seeks to question dominant understandings of the relationship between self-help and fiction which often fail to account for the …