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A World Abandoned by God: Narrative and Secularism by Susanna Lee
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Overview: A World Abandoned by God: Narrative and Secularism is a literary and philosophical study that links the idea of secularism to the form of the novel. Concentrating on five canonical French and Russian novels of the nineteenth century (Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Turgenev’s A Nest of Gentry, Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Bewitched, and Dostoevsky’s Demons), and using the instruments of narrative theory, the book offers a groundbreaking critical foundation both for understanding the move toward a secular culture and for examining the role of the individual in modern ethical, political, and spiritual contexts. The book argues that secularism is neither a historical event nor particularly a historical process. Rather, it is an idea and an impression, a way of looking at the world and asking questions about the forces that act on us. In bringing narrative criticism to bear on various aspects of national and spiritual authority, this book provides innovative perspectives on modern political structures and ideologies, especially on ways in which political discord and conflict over spiritual authority become interwined.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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