The English modernist novel as political theology : challenging the nation
Charles Andrew
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xi, 202 sider
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| Opplysninger | "Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology-works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fueled and supported the First World War - this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today. Andrews demonstrates the many ways that these novelists issue a challenge to the problems with civil religion and the sacralized nation state and, in so doing, offer alternative visions to coordinate our inner lives with our public and collective actions"--
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| Emner | Civil religion - Great Britain.
English fiction - History and criticism. English literature - Political aspects. Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain. Vis mer... Nationalism in literature.
Politics in literature. engelsk litteratur politiske aspekter Storbritannia |
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| ISBN | 9781350362031. - 9781350362079
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