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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Religion and literature."”.
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… rise of science, leading to the question of how religion survived. Both fiction and non-fiction explored this issue, offering ‘thought experiments’ regarding religion’s role in society; where texts implicitly or explicitly raise a question, and test it through a hypothetical scenario or …
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Religious and literary motifs in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy
Throughout history, religion and literature have offered patterns that allow people to acquire an understanding of the individual and his or her role within society as well as the universe. In the three novels of his Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, …
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"Unspoken sermons": Christian preaching in British fiction, 1979-2004
… an increasingly unfamiliar form to most readers and writers of fiction. Yet, as this thesis will argue, fictional sermons are still successfully used by novelists. The thesis examines sermons in three genres, and representing three Christian traditions, the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Free …
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The Fire Image in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
During the twentieth century poets and critics alike have paid more attention to imagery than to any other element of poetry. But this attention is only one manifestation of a great modern interest in the image. The last century has seen an ever-increasing image-consciousness in religion, …
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Romanticism and the religious imperative : a study of the imagination as the common grammar of literature and religion
This study will offer a close examination of Literature and Religion, investigating the parallels in central preoccupations, areas of exploration and modes of discourse which exist between them. There will be a particular emphasis on the way in which Literature and Religion articulate their …
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Capgras' Syndrome
… have replaced significant people in his life and/or that there exist identical doubles of himself. These delusional doubles are almost always believed to be malevolent. The delusion occurs in a variety of psychotic states, usually schizophrenia. It occurs in both women and men in a wide age …
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"An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir
The simultaneous emergence of ecocriticism and cultural entomology has created a critical need for a discussion of the appearance and function of insects as they appear in literature. While nineteenth-century nature writing is frequently examined by ecocritics, very few have chosen to explore how …
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Secularism Narratives And Arab American Fiction
"Secularism Narratives and Arab American Fiction" focuses on contemporary fiction's challenge to the liberal political construction of minority religious practices and community life as incompatible with modernity, progress, and secularism. U.S. secularism is not simply the absence of religion from …
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Reading as an Imitatio Christi : Flannery O'Connor and the hermeneutics of cruci-form beauty.
… can be, even must be, considered "beautiful," and 2) that O'Connor writes the way she does to make her audience better readers. Given the dark, shocking, grotesque, even carnivalesque character that pervades all her fiction, this first claim is likely to give the greatest offense or at least …
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Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature
… fiction written by American Catholics, and that these authors employ violence as an aesthetic strategy that is best, and perhaps only, understood when approached through the philosophical and imaginative discourses of their Catholic faith. While the violence in contemporary fictions can …
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Apocalyptic care : the renewal of creation in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
… misperception in Victorian literary studies and ecocriticism that belief in an embodied renewal of creation necessarily undermines a commitment to alleviating suffering now. This misperception prevents recognizing how central the apocalypse is—as a reality, not simply as a source of …
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Human hagiography : the saint figure in modernist British literature.
… Joan, T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited interpreted and portrayed saints' lives and in how they used allusions to the saints to create a particular type of character, what I call the modernist saint figure, and a particular genre, what I call …
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Uncertainty Before and After Faith: The Dynamics of Belief in Theology and Literature
… a person's imaginative orientation to trust and hope in the presence of God's grace in creation and human life. I will approach this issue through the category of uncertainty, specifically uncertainty's relationship to faith, as this relationship emerges in novels by François Mauriac, Graham …
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"Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams : the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries.
… modernists, particularly that of Sherwood Anderson. Modernists from the Midwest tended to draw from Midwestern nature a sacramental vision of the world that questioned the literalist epistemology bequeathed by New England Calvinism and embodied in industrialism.