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The gift of story : narrating hope in a postmodern world /

The Gift of Story brings contemporary literature and film into conversation with the grand Christian narrative. This book examines the specific connections between contemporary cultural meta-narratives (the stories humans typically tell about themselves) and the ideas of hope found in Christianity....

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Други автори: Griesinger, Emily, 1954-, Eaton, Mark A., 1965-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, ℗♭2006.
Предмети:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Religion and literature.
Performing arts > Religious aspects.
Literature, Modern.
RELIGION > Christianity > Literature & the Arts.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=147103
Подобни документи: Print version:: Gift of story.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: narrating hope in a postmodern world / Emily Griesinger
  • The postmodern condition
  • Inventing hope : the question of belief in Don Delillo's novels / Mark Eaton
  • Voices from within : Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, and Roberta Bondi / Anne-Marie Bowery
  • Time for hope : The sixth sense, American beauty, Memento, and Twelve monkeys / D. Brent Laytham
  • Beyond futility : American beauty and the Book of Ecclesiastes / Robert K. Johnston
  • The valley of despair
  • Prosaic grace : Doris Betts's Souls raised from the dead / Martha Greene Eads
  • Narrative bones : Amy Tan's Bonesetter's daughter and Hugh Cook's Homecoming man / Elaine Lux
  • Hope from a radio : Jurek Becker's Jakob the liar / Eric Sterling
  • Friendship and hope : Elie Wiesel's The town beyond the wall / Carole J. Lambert
  • Resisting the night
  • A passion for the impossible : Richard Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin / Harold K. Bush, Jr.
  • The prophetic burden : James Baldwin as a latter-day Jeremiah / Kelvin Beliele
  • Reconciliation and hope : confessional narratives in South Africa / Susan VanZanten Gallagher
  • Adversity and grace
  • Hope in hard times : moments of epiphany in illness narratives / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
  • Geographies of hope : Kathleen Norris and David Lynch / Kevin L. Cole
  • Attunement and healing : The fisher king / Michael B. Herzog
  • The gift of grace : Isak Dinesen's Babette's feast / Maire Mullins
  • Hope and the imagination
  • The redress of imagination : Bernard MacLaverty's Grace notes / Barry Sloan
  • The search for "deeper magic" : J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis / Emily Griesinger
  • J.R.R. Tolkien : postmodern visionary of hope / Ralph C. Wood.

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