Research Catalog

Title

The literature of spiritual values and Catholic fiction / Mariella Gable ; edited and with an introduction by Nancy Hynes.

Author

Gable, Mariella, 1899-1985.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Hynes, Nancy.

Description

xlviii, 277 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• American fiction > History and criticism
• English fiction > History and criticism
• French fiction > History and criticism
• Christian fiction > History and criticism
• Fiction > Christianity
• Christian ethics in literature
• Spiritual life in literature
• Catholics > Intellectual life
• Christianity and literature
• Values in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-258) and index.

Contents

1. Catholic Life and Catholic Fiction [1940; 1942; 1948] -- 2. Introduction to Great Modern Catholic Short Stories [1942; 1944] -- 3. Personality and Catholic Fiction [1945; 1948] -- 4. Introduction to Many-Colored Fleece [1950] -- 5. The Novel [1962] -- 6. Arrows at the Center [1947; Mauriac and Bernanos; 1948] -- 7. Catholic Fiction Arrives in America [1947; Powers; 1948] -- 8. New Boundaries [1948; Greene] -- 9. Prose Satire and the Modern Christian Temper [1960; Douglas, Huxley, Orwell, Waugh, Amis, Menen, Wilson, Spark] -- 10. The Past Made Present -- 11. Ecumenic Core in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction [1964] -- 12. Feather in the Wind [1964; Updike, O'Connor, Salinger, Golding] -- 13. The Concept of Fame in Teilhard de Chardin and Dante [1965] -- App. J. F. Powers' letter on Prince of Darkness -- App. Gable's comments on Powers' stories [1945] -- App. Gable's tribute to O'Connor and O'Connor's letters [1964] -- App. Gable's reviews of O'Connor [1965; 1972].

ISBN

0761803432 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

96014164

OCLC

ocm34548697

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries