Hard Sayings [electronic resource] : The Rhetorics of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction / Thomas F. Haddox.
Material type: TextSeries: Literature, religion, and postsecular studies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (viii, 225 p. )Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814270080
- 0814270085
- Christianity in literature
- Robinson, Marilynne -- Criticism and interpretation
- Gordon, Mary, 1949- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Updike, John -- Criticism and interpretation
- Spark, Muriel -- Criticism and interpretation
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation
- 813/.54093823 23
- PN49 .H23 2013
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction -- Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience -- Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark -- John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism -- Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament -- The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson -- Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.
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