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The broken estate : essays on literature and belief

Author: James Wood
Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2000, ©1999.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Modern Library pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Wood
ISBN: 0375752633 9780375752636
OCLC Number: 44916763
Notes: Includes index. Originally published by Random House, c1999.
Description: xiv, 284 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Sir Thomas More : a man for one season -- Shakespeare in Bloom -- Jane Austen's heroic consciousness -- The all and the if : God and metaphor in Melville -- Half against Flaubert -- Gogol's realism -- What Chekhov meant by life -- Knut Hamsun's Christian perversions -- Virginia Woolf's mysticism -- Thomas Mann : the master of the not quite -- D.H. Lawrence's occultism -- T.S. Eliot's Christian anti-Semitism -- George Steiner's unreal presence -- Iris Murdoch's philosophy of fiction -- Thomas Pynchon and the problem of allegory -- Against paranoia : the case of Don DeLillo -- John Updike's complacent God -- The monk of fornication : Philip Roth's nihilism -- Toni Morrison's false magic -- Julian Barnes and the problem of knowing too much -- W.G. Sebald's uncertainty -- The broken estate : the legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold.
Responsibility: James Wood.

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