Hard sayings : the rhetoric of Christian orthodoxy in late modern fiction /
Haddox, Thomas F.(Thomas Fredrick)
Columbus : Ohio State University Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction -- Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience -- Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark -- John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism -- Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament -- The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson -- Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.
O'Connor, Flannery
Spark, Muriel
Updike, John
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
Gordon, Mary, 1949-
Robinson, Marilynne
Christianity in literature.