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Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel

Autor Pericles Lewis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 ian 2010
The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been the domain of religious mystics and believers. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion. Through comparisons of major novelists with sociologists and psychologists from the same period, Lewis identifies the unique ways that literature addressed the changing spiritual situation of the early twentieth century. He challenges accounts that assume secularisation as the main narrative for understanding twentieth-century literature. Lewis explores the experiments that modernists undertook in order to invoke the sacred without directly naming it, resulting in a compelling study for readers of twentieth-century modernist literature.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521856508
ISBN-10: 0521856507
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements; 1. Churchgoing; 2. God's afterlife; 3. Henry James and the varieties of religious experience; 4. Marcel Proust and the elementary forms of religious life; 5. Franz Kafka and the hermeneutics of suspicion; 6. Virginia Woolf and the disenchantment of the world; 7. The burial of the dead; Select bibliography; Index; Notes.

Recenzii

'In this book, as in his two earlier ones, Pericles Lewis finds a new perspective on twentieth-century literature and demonstrates in surprising and convincing ways the depth and complexity of religious vision in the greatest modernist novels. With an impressive breadth of learning and an exact command of language and structure, this book finds in the work of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce a contradictory, self-doubting approach to religious meanings unlike those of most religious writing in the past three millennia, but profoundly religious meanings none the less. What makes the book so decisively convincing is that its approach illuminates patterns of structure and meaning that were unnoticed until now even in these deeply studied authors, but which, thanks to Lewis' alert, sympathetic readings, now seem unmistakably central.' Edward Mendelson, Columbia University
'Lewis's book is a masterly analysis of the transmutation of religious experience in the modernist novel … The richness of [the] book lies in its vivid and persuasive detail, and the careful cross-referencing between chapters.' The Times Literary Supplement
'… describes an emergent preoccupation with the fact of death and its most salient aspect, the silence of one's ancestors; he sees the modern novel as self-consciously exploring an ultimately Pyrrhic yet essential and authentic need to connect with the dead … Lewis's readings are usually good and occasionally extraordinary: there are throughout exceptional moments of textual engagement.' Modern Philology

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Considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion.