Contemporary Fiction and ChristianityBloomsbury Academic, 20.02.2008 - 168 Seiten This book provides a detailed exploration of the spiritual and religious contexts and subtexts of contemporary fiction. |
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... similarly caustic about Updike , who he claims ' evades every agonistic encounter with the force of the literary past ' . Like Wood , Bloom sees in Updike's fiction a certain serene indifference that means the novelist ' rarely fails ...
... similarly caustic about Updike , who he claims ' evades every agonistic encounter with the force of the literary past ' . Like Wood , Bloom sees in Updike's fiction a certain serene indifference that means the novelist ' rarely fails ...
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... similarly packed with visions and visionaries . Underworld , for example , Don DeLillo's vast novel of American excess , garbage and desire , spanning a half - century from the first Soviet nuclear tests to the millennium's end , turns ...
... similarly packed with visions and visionaries . Underworld , for example , Don DeLillo's vast novel of American excess , garbage and desire , spanning a half - century from the first Soviet nuclear tests to the millennium's end , turns ...
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... Similarly , Ann describes holy visions but their mediation turns them into something closer to postmodern spectacle , what Jean Baudrillard describes as a simulation without authentic origin . Both Picoult and Guterson suggest that ...
... Similarly , Ann describes holy visions but their mediation turns them into something closer to postmodern spectacle , what Jean Baudrillard describes as a simulation without authentic origin . Both Picoult and Guterson suggest that ...
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Jesus in Contemporary Fiction | 22 |
Between Grace and the Devils motley | 40 |
Signs Wonders and the Novel | 57 |
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