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Northrop Frye and American fiction

Title
Northrop Frye and American fiction / Claude Le Fustec.
Author
Le Fustec, Claude
Publication
  • Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
238 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • "Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences. Inspired by recent philosophical thinking on post-secularism and by Northrop Frye's theorizing on the connections between the Bible and the development of Western literature, Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison."--
  • "Examining these novels through the lens of Frye's ambitious account of literature's transcendent, or kerygmatic power, Le Fustec argues that American fiction has always contained the seeds of a rejection of radical skepticism and a return to spiritual experience. Beyond an insightful analysis of Frye's ideas, Northrop Frye and American Fiction is powerful testimony of their continued interpretive potential."--
Series Statement
Frye studies
Uniform Title
Frye studies.
Subject
  • Frye, Northrop > Criticism and interpretation
  • Frye, Northrop
  • 1800 - 1999
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature
  • Postsecularism
  • American fiction
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.
Contents
Introduction : re-enchantment, postsecularity, and the return of transendence in western culture -- The scarlet letter : puritan imagination and the kerygmatic power of sin -- Henry James's The Europeans : secularity and the descent of the word -- Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby : modernism and the death of the word -- Immanent Christianity in The grapes of wWrath -- "In the name of the lost father" : postsecular mysticism in On the road -- "I will call them my people" : Toni Morrison's postsecular gospel of self and community -- Conclusion : kerygma and the promises of postsecular imagination in postmodern times.
Call Number
JFE 16-6013
ISBN
  • 9781442647695
  • 1442647698
LCCN
  • 2014501694
  • 9781442647695
OCLC
879584236
Author
Le Fustec, Claude, author.
Title
Northrop Frye and American fiction / Claude Le Fustec.
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Frye studies
Frye studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.
Chronological Term
1800 - 1999
Other Standard Identifier
9781442647695
Research Call Number
JFE 16-6013
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