Author: Detweiler, Robert
Title: Breaking the Fall : Religious Readings of Contemporary Fiction
Description: San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1989. orig. boards. 23x14cm, xvii, 198 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Playing for Real: Roles, Plots & (non-)Representations; What is Reading Religiously?; Braking the Fall: Walker Percy & the Diagnostic Novel; John Updike's Sermons; Sacred Texts/Sacred Space; Scheherazade's Fellowship: Telling aginst the End. "An attempt to extend the notion of reading and the concept of a religiously reading community. Professor Detweiler is convinced of the importance of entertaining the energetic discussions of contemporary literary theory in the present debates in religious studies. This series of volumes attempts to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of literature and religion, concerned with the fundamentally important issues of the imagination, literary perceptions and an understanding of poetics for theology and religious studies and the underlying religious implications in so much literature and literary criticism

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Contemporary, Modern Literature, American Fiction, Religion, , , ,