In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world
literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy
that she calls ""pagan criticism,"" which she applies not only to
late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that
engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very
concepts of religion and the secular. Focusing on two North
American writers (the Jewish American Cynthia Ozick and the
Canadian Margaret Atwood) and two East Asian writers (the Japanese
End? Sh?saku and the Chinese Gao Xingjian), Ni reads their fiction,
drama, and prose to envision a ""pagan (re)turn"" in the study of
world religion and world literature. In doing so, she highlights
the historical complexities and contingencies in literary texts and
challenges both Christian and secularist assumptions regarding
aesthetics and hermeneutics. In assessing the collision of religion
and literature, Ni argues that the clash has been not so much
between monotheistic orthodoxies and the sanctification of
literature as between the modern Western model of religion and the
secular and its non-Western others. When East and West converge
under the rubric of paganism, she argues, the study of religion and
literature develops into that of world religion and world
literature.
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