Secularization without end. Beckett, Mann, Coetzee
In 'Secularization without end: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee', Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the novel assume the gradual disappearance of religious themes through processes typically described as rationalization: philosophy and science replace faith. Pecora shows, however, that in the modern novels he examines, ""secularization"" ceases to m…
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In 'Secularization without end: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee', Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the novel assume the gradual disappearance of religious themes through processes typically described as rationalization: philosophy and science replace faith. Pecora shows, however, that in the modern novels he examines, ""secularization"" ceases to mean emancipation from the prescientific ignorance or enchantment commonly associated with belief and signifies instead the shameful state of a humanity bereft of grace and undeserving of redemption. His book focuses on the unpredictable and paradoxical rediscovery of theological perspectives in otherwise secular novels after 1945. The narratives he analyzes are all seemingly godless in their overt points of view, from Samuel Becketts Murphy to Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus to J.M. Coetzees The Childhood of Jesus .0.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Notre Dame Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
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- Description:208 pages.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780268038991, 0268038996
- oclc:ocn927446921
- Dewey Decimal:810/820
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