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Stories of the Middle Space

Reading the Ethics in Postmodern Realisms

By: Deborah C. Bowen

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Stories of the Middle Space

Reading the Ethics in Postmodern Realisms

By: Deborah C. Bowen

Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie, Deborah Bowen makes the case for a new category of "postmodern realism" and shows how contemporary stories about "the real" and "the good" are constructed. Applying theoretical insights from Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin, Bowen investigates categories of postmodern realism such as magic realism, parody, and metafiction while laying the groundwork for Christian readings of a medium that is often perceived as largely irreligious. An illuminating study of well-known contemporary writers, Stories of the Middle Space is a critically nuanced and methodologically innovative work that reads the postmodern from a faith-based perspectives to create new literary insights.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773591036

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9780773591035

The Titanic

By: Deborah Kent

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The Titanic

By: Deborah Kent

The Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable!This title in the Cornerstones of Freedom series describes the disastrous 1912 sinking of the world's largest ocean liner after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage.

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Children's Press

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0516466720

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9780516466729

Sampling the Book

Renaissance Prologues and the French Conteurs

By: Deborah N. Losse

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Renaissance Prologues and the French Conteurs

By: Deborah N. Losse

Reference is also made to the typology set up by Gerard Genette, but efforts are made to indicate how the Renaissance prologues chart their own prefatory course.

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148

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Bucknell University Press

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0838752446

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9780838752449

The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity

Literature and the Christian Critic

By: Deborah Bowen

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The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity

Literature and the Christian Critic

By: Deborah Bowen

Contemporary Christian critique often talks about postmodernism apocalyptically, in terms of cultural crisis and decline; instead, the contributors to this volume believe that there is a new place for Christian entrées on the academic Smorgasbord of postmodernity, and they see the postmodern turn as an opportunity for fresh perspectives on the spiritual dimensions of reading literature. These twenty scholars are an eclectic group, differing in theological and theoretical commitments, but all identifying as Christian. In this collection they enter into dialogue with a wide range of contemporary literary theorists and theoretical perspectives, and offer new readings of primary texts informed by both these theoretical constructs and their Christian faith. "The manuscript strikes out in important new directions in its sympathetic reading of postmodern theory from a Christian perspective, and, even more significantly, in its careful and measured dialogic approach to the relationship of Christian thought and contemporary literary theory." Daniel Coleman, Canada Research Chair in Critical Ethnicity and Race Studies, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University "Too often Christian literary critics and theologians have preemptively dismissed postmodern theory, even as secular critics have been equally dismissive about the contributions that the Christian faith tradition makes to the study of literature. This volume successfully brings these two worlds together in innovative, at times challenging, and always rich ways. I do not know of a similar volume in existence, a work that gathers in one convenient publication a wide-ranging set of discussions of contemporary literary theory by Christian scholars. The editor has gathered an impressive and important set of papers here, and I believe the volume will raise much interest and provoke a good deal of constructive debate." Susan VanZanten Gallagher, Professor of English, Director, Center for Scholarship and Faculty Development, Seattle Pacific University

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443830151

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9781443830157

Stories of the Middle Space

Reading the Ethics in Postmodern Realisms

By: Deborah C. Bowen

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Stories of the Middle Space

Stories of the Middle Space

The Titanic

The Titanic

Sampling the Book

Sampling the Book

The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity

The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity

Stories of the Middle Space

Stories of the Middle Space

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