Liminal Readings
Forms of Otherness in Melville, Joyce and Murdoch
Published on 31. May 1992
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-333-55566-8 (ISBN)
Description
By exploring the religious dimensions of major forms of modern fiction, the author aims to illuminate unique ways of understanding the significance of narrative for studies in literature and religion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-55566-8 (9780333555668)
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12/1992
Palgrave Macmillan
€56.99
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Content
The reader's share in the narrative - events of religion and literature; limning the literary universe - Coleridge, Jung and the imagination of otherness; metaphysical otherness - reading the wonder of Ishmael's telling; epiphanic otherness - Ulysses' "Eumaeus" episode and the ambush of the reader's expectations; hermeneutic otherness - "A feeling of deflection from a viable center" in reading "A Severed Head"; religion, literature and the ethics of reading narrative.