Exploring worldviews in literature
Subtitle: from William Wordsworth to Edward Albee
By: Laura Barge.
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abilene, TX
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780891125389
Subjects: Christianity in literature; Christian ethics in literature; Christianity -- Philosophy; Philosophy and religion in literature; English literature -- History and criticism; American literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Numinous spaces in British literature from William Wordsworth to Samuel Beckett; title: Jesus figures in American literature from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Edward Albee; title: Using Bakhtin's definitions to discover ethical voices in Solzhenitsyn and Tolstoy; title: René Girard's categories of scapegoats in literature of the American South; title: Hopkins's metaphysics of nature as sacred disclosure; title: The book of job as mirrored in Hopkins's metaphysics; title: Beckett's mythos of the absence of God.