Breaking the Fall
Religious Readings of Contemporary Fiction
Published on 18. June 1989
XVIII, 198 pages
978-1-349-09991-7 (ISBN)
Description
An attempt to extend the notion of reading and the concept of a religiously reading community. Professor Detweiler is convinced of the importance of entertaining the energetic discussion of contemporary literary theory in the present debates in religious studies.
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Playing for real - roles, plots and (non) respresentations; what is reading religiously?; breaking the fall - Walker Percy and the diagnostic novel; John Updike's sermons; sacred texts/sacred space; Scheherazade's fellowship - telling against the end.
