The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief pdf
The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief pdf
The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief.cJames Wood
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Author: James Wood
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 02 Mar 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9780712665575
File size: 39 Mb
File Name: the.broken.estate.essays.on.literature.and.belief.pdf
Download Link: the broken estate essays on literature and belief
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In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startlingly wide group of writers. Wood re-appraises the writing of such figures as Thomas More, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Mann, Nikolai Gogol, Gustave Flaubert and Virginia Woolf, vigorously reading them against the grain of received opinion, and illuminatingly relating them to questions of religious and phiosophical belief. Contemporary writers, such as Martin Amis, Thomas Pynchon and George Steiner, are also discussed, with the boldness and attention to language that have made Wood such an influential and controversial figure. Writing here about his own childhood struggle to believe, Wood says that 'the child of evangelism, if he does not believe, inherits nevertheless a suspicion of indifference'. Wood brings that suspicion to bear on literature itself. The result is a unique book of criticism.
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The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief.cJames Wood
Author: James Wood
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 02 Mar 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9780712665575
File size: 39 Mb
File Name: the.broken.estate.essays.on.literature.and.belief.pdf
Download Link: the broken estate essays on literature and belief
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In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startlingly wide group of writers. Wood re-appraises the writing of such figures as Thomas More, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Mann, Nikolai Gogol, Gustave Flaubert and Virginia Woolf, vigorously reading them against the grain of received opinion, and illuminatingly relating them to questions of religious and phiosophical belief. Contemporary writers, such as Martin Amis, Thomas Pynchon and George Steiner, are also discussed, with the boldness and attention to language that have made Wood such an influential and controversial figure. Writing here about his own childhood struggle to believe, Wood says that 'the child of evangelism, if he does not believe, inherits nevertheless a suspicion of indifference'. Wood brings that suspicion to bear on literature itself. The result is a unique book of criticism.
Read online The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief Buy The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief Download The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief