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Like and unlike God : religious imaginations in modern and contemporary fiction
- Title
- Like and unlike God : religious imaginations in modern and contemporary fiction / by John Neary.
- Author
- Neary, John, 1952-
- Publication
- Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, [1999], ©1999.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 201 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book provides a fresh and readable account of the literary and the religious. Drawing on the work of David Tracy, John Neary presents two ways of imagining the human relationship with the divine: the analogical and the dialectical.
- After an introductory look at the way in which the Christian theological tradition presents these modes, Neary examines them and their complicated relationships within the works of two seminal modernist fiction writers, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce; a trio of Christian literary critics, Nathan Scott, William Lynch, and Cesareo Bandera; and several contemporary novelists who exemplify both traditional and postmodernist narrative forms, Anne Tyler, Muriel Spark, Thomas Pynchon, and D. M. Thomas.
- Neary argues that each type of imagination, analogical and dialectical, is the other's supplement, they need each other to create a vision that is sharp, rich, and whole."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Reflection and theory in the study of religion ; no. 13
- Uniform Title
- Reflection and theory in the study of religion ; no. 13.
- Subject
- Religious fiction, American > History and criticism
- Christianity and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Christianity and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Religious fiction > Theory, etc
- Christian fiction > Theory, etc
- Religious fiction, English > History and criticism
- Religion and literature > History > 20th century
- Christian fiction > History and criticism
- God in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-201).
- Contents
- Preface: Twin Peaks and Columbo -- 1. Introduction: Dialectical and Analogical Imaginations -- 2. Conrad and Joyce: Modernist Imaginations -- 3. Three Christian Critics: Nathan Scott, William Lynch, and Cesareo Bandera -- 4. Realism/Postmodernism: Contemporary Religious Imaginations.
- ISBN
- 0788505734 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0788505696
- LCCN
- 99016272
- OCLC
- ocm41580351
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries