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156 produkter
Creation and Apocalypse in Feminist Speculative Fiction
Av Lois W. McFarland, Emma Mason m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1396 kr
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Exploring nine works of contemporary feminist speculative fiction by Rhoda Lerman, Angela Carter, Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman, this book asks how biblical myths of creation and apocalypse can intensify characters’ emotions or distract them from dealing with the more immediate …
Blake. Wordsworth. Religion.
Av Jonathan Roberts, Emma Mason
Inbunden, 2011
1805 kr
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This title features new scholarship informed by both historicist and metaphysical approaches, offering original readings of the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth and their reception. The history of responses to the works of William Wordsworth and William Blake can be divided into those who have tried …
Blake. Wordsworth. Religion.
Av Jonathan Roberts, Emma Mason
Häftad, 2011
465 kr
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This title features new scholarship informed by both historicist and metaphysical approaches, offering original readings of the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth and their reception. The history of responses to the works of William Wordsworth and William Blake can be divided into those who have tried …
England's Secular Scripture
Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic
Häftad, 2011
465 kr
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By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society. "England's Secular Scripture" seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more …
England's Secular Scripture
Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic
Inbunden, 2011
1805 kr
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By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society. "England's Secular Scripture" seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more …
England's Secular Scripture
Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic
E-bok, 2011
491 kr
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By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society.
Do The Gods Wear Capes?
Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes
Häftad, 2011
433 kr
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This title is a consideration of the modern Superhero comic as an expression of spiritual desire, showing what Superheroes can teach about our most essential human needs. Ben Saunders shows that Superhero comics address deep emotional needs. From their earliest days, Superheroes have engaged with …
Victorian Parables
Inbunden, 2012
2131 kr
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This is a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, and Lazarus and the Rich Man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and …
New Atheist Novel
Philosophy, Fiction and Polemic after 9/11
Av Arthur Bradley, Andrew Tate m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1805 kr
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The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. For McEwan and his …
New Atheist Novel
Philosophy, Fiction and Polemic after 9/11
Av Arthur Bradley, Andrew Tate m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
465 kr
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The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. For McEwan and his …
Forgiveness in Victorian Literature
Grammar, Narrative, and Community
Av Richard Hughes Gibson, Emma Mason
Häftad, 2016
645 kr
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Forgiveness was a preoccupation of writers in the Victorian period, bridging literatures highbrow and low, sacred and secular. Yet if forgiveness represented a common value and language, literary scholarship has often ignored the diverse meanings and practices behind this apparently uncomplicated …
Gospel According to the Novelist
Religious Scripture and Contemporary Fiction
Av Magdalena Maczynska, Emma Mason
Häftad, 2017
645 kr
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Why have so many prominent literary authors—from Philip Pullman and José Saramago to Michèle Roberts and Colm Tóibím—recently rewritten the canonical story of Jesus Christ? What does that say about our supposedly secular age? In this insightful study, Magdalena Maczynska defines and examines the …
Jewish Feeling
Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing
Av Richa Dwor, Emma Mason
Häftad, 2017
645 kr
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Jewish Feeling brings together affect theory and Jewish Studies to trace Jewish difference in literary works by nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Dwor argues that midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic …
Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien
Häftad, 2017
645 kr
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare criticism to reconstruct this idea as a form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations of a new …
Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture
Av Stephen Shapiro, Philip Barnard m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
596 kr
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Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based …
Jeanette Winterson and Religion
Inbunden, 2019
1641 kr
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Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. …
Jeanette Winterson and Religion
Av Emily McAvan
E-bok, 2019
574 kr
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Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. …
Jeanette Winterson and Religion
Av Emily McAvan
E-bok, 2019
592 kr
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Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. …
Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel
A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision
Av Ryan S. Kemp, Jordan Rodgers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1478 kr
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In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday human life.An in-depth philosophical exploration of her work – from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction …
Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel
A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision
Av Ryan S. Kemp, Jordan Rodgers
E-bok, 2022
538 kr
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In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday human life. An in-depth philosophical exploration of her work – from Gilead to her extensive …
Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel
A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision
Av Ryan S. Kemp, Jordan Rodgers
E-bok, 2022
522 kr
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In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday human life. An in-depth philosophical exploration of her work – from Gilead to her extensive …
Bible in the American Short Story
Av Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Peter S. Hawkins m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
580 kr
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The Bible in the American Short Story examines Biblical influences in the post-World War II American short story. In a series of accessible chapters, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins offer close-readings of short stories by leading contemporary writers such as Flannery O’Connor, …
Faith in Poetry
Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief
Av Michael D. Hurley, Emma Mason
Häftad, 2019
580 kr
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In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers – William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did they …
Religion and American Literature Since 1950
Av Mark Eaton, Emma Mason
Inbunden, 2020
1641 kr
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From Flannery O’Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA’s changing religious life since the end of World War II. Exploring a wide range of writers from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and secular …
Religion and American Literature Since 1950
Av Mark Eaton
E-bok, 2020
592 kr
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From Flannery O''Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA''s changing religious life since the end of World War II. Exploring a wide range of writers from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and …
Religion and American Literature Since 1950
Av Mark Eaton
E-bok, 2020
579 kr
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From Flannery O''Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA''s changing religious life since the end of World War II. Exploring a wide range of writers from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and …
Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton
Inbunden, 2022
1560 kr
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This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly living. Examining works from a diverse range of …
Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton
Av David Parry
E-bok, 2021
526 kr
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This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly living. Examining works from a diverse range of …
Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton
Av David Parry
E-bok, 2021
538 kr
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This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly living. Examining works from a diverse range of …
Biblical Sterne
Rhetoric and Religion in the Shandyverse
Inbunden, 2021
1641 kr
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Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson’s roguish reputation. The book’s aim, however, is not to dispel roguishness but rather to discern the theological motives behind Sterne’s comic rhetoric, from Tristram …
