The Resource Secularization Without End : Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora
Secularization Without End : Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora
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- Summary
- In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the novel assume the gradual disappearance of religious themes through processes typically described as rationalization: philosophy and science replace faith. Pecora shows, however, that in the modern novels he examines, "secularization" ceases to mean emancipation from the prescientific ignorance or enchantment commonly associated with belief and signifies instead the shameful state of a humanity bereft of grace and undeserving of redemption. His book focuses on the unpredictable and paradoxical rediscovery of theological perspectives in otherwise secular novels after 1945. The narratives he analyzes are all seemingly godless in their overt points of view, from Samuel Beckett{u2019}s Murphy to Thomas Mann{u2019}s Doktor Faustus to J. M. Coetzee{u2019}s The Childhood of Jesus. But, Pecora argues, these novels wind up producing varieties of religious doctrine drawn from Augustinian and Calvinist claims about primordial guilt and the impotence of human will. In the most artfully imaginative ways possible, Beckett, Mann, and Coetzee resist the apparently inevitable plot that so many others have constructed for the history of the novel, by which human existence is reduced to mundane and meaningless routines and nothing more. Instead, their writing invokes a religious past that turns secular modernity, and the novel itself, inside out.--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 214 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Secularization and the history of the novel
- Martin Heidegger, John Calvin, and Samuel Beckett
- Thomas Mann, Augustine, and the "Death of God"
- The ambivalent puritan: J.M. Coetzee
- Conclusion: Reading in the afterlife of the novel
- Isbn
- 9780268038991
- Label
- Secularization Without End : Beckett, Mann, Coetzee
- Title
- Secularization Without End
- Title remainder
- Beckett, Mann, Coetzee
- Statement of responsibility
- Vincent P. Pecora
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the novel assume the gradual disappearance of religious themes through processes typically described as rationalization: philosophy and science replace faith. Pecora shows, however, that in the modern novels he examines, "secularization" ceases to mean emancipation from the prescientific ignorance or enchantment commonly associated with belief and signifies instead the shameful state of a humanity bereft of grace and undeserving of redemption. His book focuses on the unpredictable and paradoxical rediscovery of theological perspectives in otherwise secular novels after 1945. The narratives he analyzes are all seemingly godless in their overt points of view, from Samuel Beckett{u2019}s Murphy to Thomas Mann{u2019}s Doktor Faustus to J. M. Coetzee{u2019}s The Childhood of Jesus. But, Pecora argues, these novels wind up producing varieties of religious doctrine drawn from Augustinian and Calvinist claims about primordial guilt and the impotence of human will. In the most artfully imaginative ways possible, Beckett, Mann, and Coetzee resist the apparently inevitable plot that so many others have constructed for the history of the novel, by which human existence is reduced to mundane and meaningless routines and nothing more. Instead, their writing invokes a religious past that turns secular modernity, and the novel itself, inside out.--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pecora, Vincent P.
- Dewey number
- 809/.93382
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN3351
- LC item number
- .P43 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The Yusko Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fiction
- Secularism in literature
- Religion and literature
- Secularization (Theology)
- Fiction
- Religion and literature
- Secularism in literature
- Secularization (Theology)
- Label
- Secularization Without End : Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
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- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction: Secularization and the history of the novel -- Martin Heidegger, John Calvin, and Samuel Beckett -- Thomas Mann, Augustine, and the "Death of God" -- The ambivalent puritan: J.M. Coetzee -- Conclusion: Reading in the afterlife of the novel
- Control code
- 898029332
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9780268038991
- Lccn
- 2014047516
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898029332
- Label
- Secularization Without End : Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction: Secularization and the history of the novel -- Martin Heidegger, John Calvin, and Samuel Beckett -- Thomas Mann, Augustine, and the "Death of God" -- The ambivalent puritan: J.M. Coetzee -- Conclusion: Reading in the afterlife of the novel
- Control code
- 898029332
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9780268038991
- Lccn
- 2014047516
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898029332
Subject
- Fiction
- Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- History
- Religion and literature
- Religion and literature
- Secularism in literature
- Secularism in literature
- Secularization (Theology)
- Secularization (Theology) -- History -- 20th century
- 1900 - 1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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