Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce

by Robert M. Polhemus

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"Polhemus sketches several distinctions between nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists and concludes that what most characterizes the nineteenth century, from the perspective of the twentieth, is the tendency in its comic fiction to criticize and to undermine the dogma and institutions of religion and to put faith instead of the existence of the comic perspective. Comic Faith is a virtuoso performance of impressive stature; I suspect the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226673219

ISBN13:9780226673219

Release Date:October 1982

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Christianity Criticism & Theory English Literature History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies

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