Religious Feeling and Religious Commitment in Faulkner Dostoyevsky Werfel and Bernanos 1st Edition by Jeremy Smith 9781317209072 1317209079

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• ISBN 10: 1317209079
• ISBN 13: 9781317209072
• Author: Jeremy Smith

First published in 1988, the aim of this study is to define the role of religious meaning in the modern novel and to demonstrate that the novel can successfully express a religious feeling, but not a religious commitment. Through the analysis of four novels by Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Werfel and Bernanos, the work explains why novels with a single definite commitment tend to be implausible and lacking in aesthetic unity. This book will be of interest to those studying religion in 19th Century literature.

Table contents:

Part One
I Empathy and Characterization in Light in August
II Light in August and the Question of Universality
III Light in August and the Mystery of the Human Condition
Part Two
IV From Faulkner to Dostoyevsky: Two Kinds of Religious Experience in the Novel
V Characterization and the Experience of Conviction in The Idiot
VI Religious Unease and the Structure of The Idiot
Part Three
VII Evocation of Feeling and Avowal of Commitment as Artistic Aims: From Faulkner and Dostoyevsky to Werfel and Bernanos
VIII Confusion of Aim and the Lack of Fictional Structure in Werfel’s Embezzled Heaven
IX The Conflict between Rhetorical Aim and Fictional Form in Bernanos’ The Diary of a Country Priest

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