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American Catholic arts and fictions : culture, ideology, aesthetics
- 作者： Giles, Paul
- 其他題名：
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
- 出版： Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press
- 叢書名： Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;[58]
- 主題： Catholic Church , American literature--Catholic authors--History and criticism , Christian literature, American--History and criticism , Catholics--Intellectual life , Authors, American--Religious life , Christianity and literature , Catholics in literature , Arts, American , Arts, Modern--20th century. , Christianity and the arts
- ISBN： 0521417775 (hbk.): US$75.45
- 資料類型: 圖書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005143402 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds such as Orestes Brownson, Theodore Dreiser, Mary McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Altman. The book also explores how Catholicism was represented and mythologized by other American writers. By highlighting the recurring themes and preoccupations of American Catholic fictions, Giles challenges many of the accepted ideas about the centrality of Romanticism to the American literary canon. He reconstructs the different social, historical and philosophical contexts from which aesthetics in the 'Catholic' tradition have emerged, and shows how these stand in an oblique relationship to the assumptions of the American Enlightenment.