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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Marilynne Robinson"”.
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Ordinary sanctity: grief and the fiction of Marilynne Robinson
… theories of loss. American novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson has long been critical of the over-reliance on scientism that has evacuated contemporary knowledge of the felt experience of human lives. This thesis argues that felt experiences of intimate bereavement are at the core of her four …
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Author and Believer: Exploring the Mystery of Faith in the Works of Flannery O’Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and Alice McDermott
… literature of three authors: Flannery O’Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and Alice McDermott. These authors all proclaim belief in the Christian faith (two Catholic, one Protestant) and also stress the value of art as a way of seeing truth in life. Their dedication to upholding artistic principles in …
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The Gods of Women and Their Mothers: Stories
… such as Samantha Hunt, Kimberly King Parsons, Marilynne Robinson, Evelyn Waugh, and Mary Robison who allowed me to explore a range of characters and their vulnerabilities.</p>
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Waiting for the Miraculous: An Essay on Patience in American Literature
… writers from different decades—Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Annie Dillard, and Teju Cole. The way in which these authors portray object relations denotes a form of patience in which one’s personal longings, contained in physical things, aspire for universal understanding.</p>
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"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age
… 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 subversive, a backdoor or, as John McClure puts it in his book, Partial Faiths: …
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Multiple, misaligned subjectivities : how representative twentieth century authors resolve the tension between American individualism and femininity.
… Hill House, and We Always Lived in a Castle) and Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping and Lila). The analysis examines how the characters experience the conflict, how it arises, and how they resolve the conflict, if, in fact, they can. Each author portrays the character's conflict between these …
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Babel's Apology: Religious Nostalgia and Literary Engagement with the Postsecular Age
… grave, from the death of an individual in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead to the destruction of an entire culture as portrayed throughout Louise Erdrich’s novels, then examining eschatologies in the work of Walker Percy, and finally, Don DeLillo’s portrayal of religious history as it might be …