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Contemporary Fiction And Christianity

by Uk) Andrew Tate (lancaster University

  • Hardback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

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For readers interested in faith and modern literature

Examines the link between fiction and religious belief

You will discover how novels reflect sacred experiences

This book explores how contemporary fiction interacts with Christian theology.

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How does contemporary fiction engage with the claims and ideas of Christian theology? Can 'secular fictions' accommodate transcendent experiences or encounters with the divine? Does belief continue to influence the shape of fiction in any meaningful way? This study argues against the idea that the 'postmodern condition' of late twentieth and early twenty-first century culture has undermined the close and creative association between religious practice and literature. It suggests that the novel, as a major narrative genre of contemporary western culture, has become an increasingly vital, dynamic and problematic space for engaging with the sacred.Tate examines the work of more than a dozen contemporary Anglo-American novelists, including John Updike, Douglas Coupland, John Irving, Michele Roberts, Don DeLillo and Jim Crace. He shows how the 'sacred turn' in western culture is manifested within the novel from the 1980s to the present, paying particular attention to representations of such theological ideas as the miraculous, the heretical, the apocalyptic and the messianic.
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  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    December 2007

  • Weight

    400g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826489074

  • ISBN-10

    0826489079

  • Eden Code

    1117443

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