God and Self in the Confessional Novel

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-08224-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 157 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores 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 Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, Percy’s Lancelot, and McEwan’s Atonement to investigate the evolution of confession and guilt in literature from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sykes, Jr.

Sykes, Jr., John D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Novel’s Confessional Limit.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

John D. Sykes, Jr. is the Mary and Harry Brown Professor of English and Religion at Wingate University, USA.  He is the author of Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation (2007) and has published widely in the field of theology and literature.