The broken estate : essays on literature and belief /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[1999]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Sir Thomas More: a man for one season
- Jane Austen's heroic consciousness
- The all and the if: God and metaphor in Melville
- Half against Flaubert
- Gogol's realism
- What Chekhov meant by life
- Knut Hamsun's Christian perversions
- Virginia Woolf's mysticism
- Thomas Mann the master of the not quite
- D.H. Lawrence's occultism
- T.S. Eliot's Christian anti-Semitism
- George Steiner's unreal presence
- Isis Murdoch's philosophy of fiction
- Thomas Pynchon and the problem of allegory
- Against paranoia: the case of Don DeLillo
- John Updike's complacent God
- The monk of fornication: Philip Roth's nihilism
- Toni Morrison's false magic
- Julian Barnes and the problem of knowing too much
- W.G. Sebald's uncertainty
- The broken estate: the legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold.