Beschreibung
God and Self in the Confessional Novelexplores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the classic confessional texts of Augustine and Rousseau. Employing this framework, John D. Sykes, Jr. examines GoethesThe Sorrows of Young Werther, DostoevskysNotes from Underground, PercysLancelot, and McEwansAtonement to investigate the evolution of confession and guilt in literature from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
Autorenportrait
John D. Sykes, Jr. is the Mary and Harry Brown Professor of English and Religion at Wingate University, USA. He is the author ofFlannery OConnor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation(2007) and has published widely in the field of theology and literature.
Inhalt
1. Introduction.- 2. Augustine and Rousseau:
Confessio laudis,
Confessio peccatorum, and the Nature of the Self.- 3.
The Sorrows of Young Werther: Confessions without Confession.- 4.
Notes from Underground: Self-Deception and the Dialogic Self.- 5.
Lancelot: Dialogic Consciousness and the Triadic Self.- 6.
Atonement: The Novels Confessional Limit.- 7. Conclusion.
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