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The Pagan Writes Back: When World Religion Meets World Literature

The Pagan Writes Back: When World Religion Meets World Literature

Ni, Zhange

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Religion and Culture

Religion General Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0813937671
ISBN13: 9780813937670
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: May 21 2015
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls pagan criticism, which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular. Focusing on two North American writers (the Jewish American Cynthia Ozick and the Canadian Margaret Atwood) and two East Asian writers (the Japanese Endō Shūsaku and the Chinese Gao Xingjian), Ni reads their fiction, drama, and prose to envision a pagan (re)turn in the study of world religion and world literature. In doing so, she highlights the historical complexities and contingencies in literary texts and challenges both Christian and secularist assumptions regarding aesthetics and hermeneutics.

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