- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 225 p.)
- Series Statement
- Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
- Uniform Title
- Hard sayings (Online)
- Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
- Alternative Title
- Hard sayings (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012047044
- OCLC
- ssj0001058769
- Author
Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick)
- Title
Hard sayings [electronic resource] : the rhetoric of Christian orthodoxy in late modern fiction / Thomas F. Haddox.
- Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.
- Series
Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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