Hard Sayings The Rhetorics of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction - Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick); Project Muse. (Ohio State University Press, 2013)
Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction -- Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience -- Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark -- John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism -- Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament -- The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson -- Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
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Keywords: Christianity in literature; Robinson, Marilynne -- Criticism and interpretation; Gordon, Mary, -- 1949- -- Criticism and interpretation; Percy, Walker, -- 1916-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation; Updike, John -- Criticism and interpretation; Spark, Muriel -- Criticism and interpretation; O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation; Electronic books