Faith And Fiction
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Faith In Fiction
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Author : David S. Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1981
Faith In Fiction written by David S. Reynolds and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first full-length study of early religious fiction from the Revolution to the Civil War, this book explores a long forgotten genre of writing. Ranging over the fiction of some 250 American writers, Reynolds provides an overview of the bestsellers of their time and the popular culture of the period. The literary movement he traces began as a cautiously allegorical one, and he finds that it evolved into a fairly realistic genre by the mid-nineteenth century. This shift from the metaphysical to the earthly was abetted by the authors' uses of a variety of appealing modes: the oriental and visionary tale, historical fiction on biblical themes, and the domestic novel. Reynolds' study addresses several questions: When did religion first appear in American fiction, and why was the novel increasingly chosen as the appropriate literary mode of popular inspiration? How could theology become entertainment? In what sense does the rhetorical strategy of this fiction reflect changing ways of religious discussion? How can the sermons, essays, or memoirs of the early writers help us to understand the themes and techniques of their fiction?
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
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Author : David Foster Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-09-24
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men written by David Foster Wallace and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-24 with Fiction categories.
In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.
Nourishing Faith Through Fiction
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Author : John R. May
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2001
Nourishing Faith Through Fiction written by John R. May and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
An examination of how the films we see and the books we read affect our faith and our view of the world. With the Apostles' Creed as his foundation, author May interprets popular works such as The Grapes of Wrath, Cool Hand Luke, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Saving Private Ryan through the lens of religious faith.
Faith And Fiction
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Author : Anita Gandolfo
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2007-08-30
Faith And Fiction written by Anita Gandolfo and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Still got religion" -- The Da Vinci phenomenon -- Competing paradigms -- A literature of their own -- The left behind phenomenon -- Beyond "Christian fiction" -- Varieties of religious experience -- Faith, fiction, and the future
Dostoevsky
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Author : Rowan Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2008-04-09
Dostoevsky written by Rowan Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-09 with Religion categories.
When an Archbishop of Canterbury takes time off to write a book about Dostoevsky, this is a sign of great hope and encouragement for The Church of England and for all those who seek God. The current rash of books hostile to religious faith will one day be an interesting subject for some sociological analysis. But to counter such work, is a book of the profoundest kind about the nature and purpose of religious belief. Terrorism, child abuse, absent fathers and the fragmentation of the family, the secularisation and the sexualisation of culture, the future of liberal democracy, the clash of cultures and the nature of national identity - so many of the anxieties that we think of as being quintessentially features of the early twenty first century and on, are present in the work of Dostoevsky - in his letters, his journalism and above all in his fiction. The world we inhabit as readers of his novels is one in which the question of what human beings owe to each other is left painfully and shockingly open and there is no place to stand from which we can construct a clear moral landscape. But the novels of Dostoevsky continually press home what else might be possible if we - characters and readers - saw the world in another light, the light provided by faith. In order to respond to such a challenge the novels invite us to imagine precisely those extremes of failure, suffering and desolation. There is an unresolved tension in Dostoevsky's novels- a tension between believing and not believing in the existence of God. In The Brothers Karamazov, we can all receive Ivan with a terrible kind of delight. Ivan's picture of himself we immediately recognise as self-portrait. The god that is dead for him is dead for us. This Karamazov God of tension and terror is often the only one we are able to find. This extraordinary book will speak to our generation like few others.
Faith Stories Short Fiction On The Varieties And Vagaries Of Faith
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Author : C. Michael Curtis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-11
Faith Stories Short Fiction On The Varieties And Vagaries Of Faith written by C. Michael Curtis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with categories.
Chosen by the esteemed fiction editor of the Atlantic Monthly, the stories in this volume broaden the conversation begun in God: Stories. Here are tales rooted in Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Quaker, and Confucian as well as Jewish and Christian beliefs.
Faith
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Author : Jennifer Haigh
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Faith written by Jennifer Haigh and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Fiction categories.
One woman's search for the truth after scandal rocks her family, and the explosive family secrets she uncovers, in this complex, moving fourth novel from bestselling and award-winning author Jennifer Haigh.
Faith Rising Between The Lines
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Author : David B. Bowman
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-05-25
Faith Rising Between The Lines written by David B. Bowman and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Religion categories.
This writing intends to rouse would-be believers to faith—or enhance the faith of others—through the adventure of modern fiction. While taking note of the secularity of our era, the author insists the Spirit of God has not departed the scene. The opening poem by Emily Dickinson, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” proposes the author’s contention that the “indirect discourse” of fictional writers may welcome readers to faith’s door in ways sermonic speech never did. The modern authors chosen for this purpose are Izak Dinesen, Annie Dillard, Kent Haruf, Loren Eiseley, Gary Trudeau, Garrison Keillor, William Golding, Walker Percy, Frederick Buechner, and Gabriel Marcel. Having explained one work each by these noted authors, the book closes by pointing to ways in which embedded faith may rise out of these pages to meet the reader where he or she lives.
Invented Religions
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Author : Carole M. Cusack
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Invented Religions written by Carole M. Cusack and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Religion categories.
Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as a result of underground publishing and the internet. This book deals with immensely popular subject matter: Jediism developed from George Lucas' Star Wars films; the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, founded by 26-year-old student Bobby Henderson in 2005 as a protest against the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools; Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius which retain strong followings and participation rates among college students. The Church of All Worlds' focus on Gaia theology and environmental issues makes it a popular focus of attention. The continued success of these groups of Invented Religions provide a unique opportunity to explore the nature of late/post-modern religious forms, including the use of fiction as part of a bricolage for spirituality, identity-formation, and personal orientation.
A Refuge Of Lies
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Author : Cesáreo Bandera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
A Refuge Of Lies written by Cesáreo Bandera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Mimesis categories.
Erich Auerbach's seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly considered a classic. The book brought into focus the fundamental difference that exists between the two basic approaches to the textual representation of reality in Western culture. These two styles, as Auerbach called them, were archetypically displayed in Homer's poems and in the Old Testament, respectively. Auerbach's differentiation is the starting point for Bandera's insightful work, which expands and develops on this theory in several key ways. One of the more significant differences between the two styles transcends and grounds all the others. It concerns the truth of each of the two archetypal texts, or rather, the attitude exhibited in those texts with regard to the truth of what they narrate. Auerbach, Bandera notes, is amazed at the Bible's passionate concern for the truth of what it saysa concern he found absent in Homer. Bandera finds that what the prophet Isaiah called a refuge of lies defines Homer's work. He draws on his own research and Ren Girard's theory of the sacred to develop an enhanced perspective of the relationship between these texts.