Research Catalog

Title

From fantasy to faith : morality, religion and twentieth-century literature / D.Z. Phillips.

Author

Phillips, D. Z. (Dewi Zephaniah)

Publication

London : SCM Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xvi, 240 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Religion and literature
• Religion in literature
• Literature > Philosophy
• Religion > Philosophy
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published as From fantasy to faith : the philosophy of religion and twentieth-century literature / D.Z. Phillips. Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : marches of vocabulary (T.S. Eliot) -- pt. I : Somewhere over the rainbow -- Down the yellow brick road (L. Frank Baum) -- Emptying heaven (Wallace Stevens) -- Priests of our time (Dennis Potter and Nathanael West) -- After empty heaven (Wallace Stevens and Dennis Potter) -- Charitable untruths (Philip Larkin) -- pt. II : Under a godless sky -- Following rules (Luigi Pirandello) -- Only Words? (Samuel Beckett) -- Distorting truth (Caradoc Evans) -- The shortest way home (Joan Didion) -- Mental gymnastics (Tom Stoppard) -- A place without qualitites (Franz Kafka) -- Meaning what we say (Alice Monro) -- pt. III : Heroes of the horizon -- -- Of fishers and men (Ernest Hemingway) -- Kill or be killed (Isaac Babel) -- One priest, two sermons (Albert Camus) -- pt. IV : Under god's heaven -- Who's who (Barbara Pym) -- Displaced persons (Edith Wharton) -- Beyond the call of duty (Elie Wiesel) -- Revealing the hidden (R.S. Thomas) -- A realism of distances (Flannery O'Connor).

ISBN

• 0334040280 (pbk.)
• 9780334040286

OCLC

• 68267919
• SCSB-12839397

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library