TY - BOOK AU - Haddox,Thomas F. ED - Project Muse. TI - Hard sayings: the rhetoric of Christian orthodoxy in late modern fiction T2 - Literature, religion, and postsecular studies SN - 9780814270080 AV - PN49 .H23 2013 U1 - 813/.54093823 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Columbus PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Robinson, Marilynne KW - Gordon, Mary, KW - Percy, Walker, KW - Updike, John KW - Spark, Muriel KW - O'Connor, Flannery KW - Christianity in literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814270080/ ER -