Religion and American Literature Since 1950

Religion and American Literature Since 1950
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781350123762
ISBN-13 : 1350123765
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Book Synopsis Religion and American Literature Since 1950 by : Mark Eaton

Download or read book Religion and American Literature Since 1950 written by Mark Eaton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA's changing religious life since the end of World War II. Exploring a wide range of writers from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and secular faiths, this book is an in-depth study of contemporary fiction's engagement with religious belief, identity and practice. Through readings of major writers of our time like Saul Bellow, E. L. Doctorow, Philip Roth, Marilynne Robinson and John Updike, Mark Eaton discovers a more nuanced picture of the varieties of American religious experience: that they are more commonplace than cultural ideas of progressive secularisation or faith-based polarization might suggest.


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