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Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
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How does contemporary fiction engage with the claims and ideas of
Christian theology? Can 'secular fictions' accommodate transcendent
experiences or encounters with the divine? Does belief continue to
influence the shape of fiction in any meaningful way? This study
argues against the idea that the 'postmodern condition' of late
twentieth and early twenty-first century culture has undermined the
close and creative association between religious practice and
literature. It suggests that the novel, as a major narrative genre
of contemporary western culture, has become an increasingly vital,
dynamic and problematic space for engaging with the sacred.Tate
examines the work of more than a dozen contemporary Anglo-American
novelists, including John Updike, Douglas Coupland, John Irving,
Michele Roberts, Don DeLillo and Jim Crace. He shows how the
'sacred turn' in western culture is manifested within the novel
from the 1980s to the present, paying particular attention to
representations of such theological ideas as the miraculous, the
heretical, the apocalyptic and the messianic.
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