Beyond the Story - American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism (Hardcover)

Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism argues that theology is crucial to understanding the power of contemporary American stories. By drawing on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Christian personalism, and contemporary phenomenology, Lake argues that literary fiction activates an irreducibly personal intersubjectivity between author, reader, and characters. Stories depend on a dignity-granting valuation of the particular lives of ordinary people, which is best described as an act of love that mirrors the love of the divine. Through original readings of the fiction of Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Toni Morrison, and others, Lake enters into a dialogue with postsecular theory and cognitive literary studies to reveal the limits of sociobiology's approach to culture. The result is a book that will remind readers how storytelling continually reaffirms the transcendent value of human beings in an inherently personal cosmos. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of theology and literary studies, as well as a broad audience of readers seeking to engage on a deeper level with contemporary literature.

General

Imprint:	University of Notre Dame Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Christina Bieber Lake
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-0-268-10625-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-268-10625-8
Barcode:	9780268106256

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