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Postmodern belief : American literature and religion since 1960
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ISBN: 9780691135083 9780691145754 Year: 2010 Volume: *1 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press


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Making literature now
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ISBN: 9780804795128 9780804799409 9780804799423 0804799423 0804795126 0804799407 Year: 2016 Publisher: Stanford Stanford University Press

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How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various conditions—including gender, education, business dynamics, social networks, money, and the forces of literary tradition—affect the things we can choose, or refuse, to read. Amy Hungerford focuses her discussion on literary bestsellers as well as little-known traditional and digital literature from smaller presses, such as McSweeney's. She deftly matches the particular human stories of the makers with the impersonal structures through which literary reputation is made. Ranging from fine-grained ethnography to polemical argument, this book transforms our sense of how and why new literature appears—and disappears—in contemporary American culture.


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Postmodern Belief
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ISBN: 1400834910 128256935X 0691135088 069114575X 9781400834914 9780691135083 9780691145754 9780691135083 9780691145754 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg's chant-infused 1960's poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy's prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison's fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in understanding religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act. Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.

The holocaust of texts: genocide, literature, and personification
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ISBN: 0226360768 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press


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Postmodern Belief : American Literature and Religion since 1960
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ISBN: 9781400834914 9780691145754 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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The Norton anthology of american literature
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ISBN: 9780393264548 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company,

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ISBN: 9780393264555 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company,

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