A World Abandoned by God: Narrative and SecularismBucknell University Press, 2006 - 197 páginas The idea of God, in one form or another, is a fundamental part of human experience - a given, almost. And yet, for over one hundred and fifty years, we have lived in a world become increasingly secular. The goal of this book is to reconcile these facts, or rather to examine their interaction and, in so doing, to understand the idea and the experience of secularism. Concentrating on five canonical French and Russian novels of the nineteenth century (Stendahl's The Red and the Black, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Ivan Turgenev's A Nest of Gentry, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Bewitched, and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Demons) and using the instruments of narrative theory, this book offers a groundbreaking critical foundation for understanding both the evolution of secular culture and the new role of the individual in modern ethical, political, and spiritual contexts. |
Índice
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Introduction | 11 |
Navigating the Secular World | 22 |
Flauberts Superior Joke | 49 |
Faith in Realism | 79 |
The Joy of Mystification | 109 |
The Narrator Who Knew Too Much | 137 |
Conclusion | 170 |
Notes | 174 |
Bibliography | 186 |
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