Hard sayings
Subtitle: the rhetoric of Christian orthodoxy in late modern fiction
By: Thomas F. Haddox
Series: Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780814212080; 9780814293102
Subjects: Christianity in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction; title: Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience; title: Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark; title: John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism; title: Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament; title: The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson; title: Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.