The gift of story
Subtitle: narrating hope in a postmodern world
By: edited by Emily Griesinger, Mark A. Eaton.
Contributors: Griesinger, Emily, 1954-; Eaton, Mark A., 1965-
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Religion and literature; Performing arts -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: narrating hope in a postmodern world / Emily Griesinger; title: The postmodern condition; title: Inventing hope : the question of belief in Don Delillo's novels / Mark Eaton; title: Voices from within : Gloria Anzalda, Bell Hooks, and Roberta Bondi / AnneMarie Bowery; title: Time for hope : the sixth sense, American beauty, memento, and twelve monkeys / Brent Laytham; title: Beyond futility : American beauty and the book of Ecclesiastes / Robert K. Johnston; title: The valley of despair; title: Prosaic grace : Doris Betts's souls raised from the dead  / Martha Greene Eads; title: Narrative bones : Amy Tan's Bonesetter's daughter and Hugh Cook's homecoming man / Elaine Lux; title: Hope from a radio : Jurek Becker's Jakob the liar / Eric Sterling; title: Friendship and hope : Elie Wiesel's the town beyond the wall / Carole J. Lambert; title: Resisting the night; title: A passion for the impossible : Richard Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin / Harold K. Bush, Jr.; title: The prophetic burden : James Baldwin as a latterday Jeremiah / Kelvin Beliele; title: Reconciliation and hope : confessional narratives in South Africa / Susan VanZanten Gallagher; title: Adversity and grace; title: Hope in hard times : moments of epiphany in illness narratives / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre; title: Geographies of hope / Kathleen Norris and David Lynch Kevin L. Cole; title: Attunement and healing : the fisher king / Michael B. Herzog; title: The gift of grace : Isak Dinesen's Babette's feast / Maire Mullins; title: Hope and the imagination; title: The redress of imagination : Bernard MacLaverty's grace notes / Barry Sloan; title: The search for "deeper magic" : J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis / Emily Griesinger; title: J.R.R. Tolkien : postmodern visionary of hope / Ralph C. Wood.