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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.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-Enchantment, Post-Secularity and the Return of Transcendence in Western Culture 1. The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Imagination and the Kerygmatic Power of Sin 2. Henry James's The Europeans: Secularity and the Descent of the Word 3. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Modernism and the Death of the Word 4. Immanent Christianity in The Grapes of Wrath 5. "In the Name of the Lost Father": Postsecular Mysticism in On the Road 6. "I Will Call Them My People": Toni Morrison's Postsecular Gospel of Self and Community Conclusion: Kerygma and the Promises of Post-Secular Imagination in Postmodern Times Notes Bibliography

Northrop Frye and American Fiction

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/01/2015
      ISBN13: 9781442647695, 978-1442647695
      ISBN10: 1442647698
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-Enchantment, Post-Secularity and the Return of Transcendence in Western Culture 1. The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Imagination and the Kerygmatic Power of Sin 2. Henry James's The Europeans: Secularity and the Descent of the Word 3. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Modernism and the Death of the Word 4. Immanent Christianity in The Grapes of Wrath 5. "In the Name of the Lost Father": Postsecular Mysticism in On the Road 6. "I Will Call Them My People": Toni Morrison's Postsecular Gospel of Self and Community Conclusion: Kerygma and the Promises of Post-Secular Imagination in Postmodern Times Notes Bibliography

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