Listening for God: Malamud, O'Connor, Updike, & Morrison
"We live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of us can manage. Can we still find spiritual truths that will restore a sense of a higher meaning to our li...
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Macon, Georgia
Mercer University Press
[2020]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "We live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of us can manage. Can we still find spiritual truths that will restore a sense of a higher meaning to our lives? For millennia, people have looked to literature, to scriptures, epics, poems, plays, novels, and films for insights into the human condition. In our increasingly rationalized world, some of these contemporary storytellers-like a Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, or Toni Morrison-stretch their art to find new words for the sacred. The God for whom they listen is elusive, a mystery. Their stories and novels are not make-believe accounts of a supernatural Being. They are stories that dig beneath all the ordinary ways we try to justify our lives to uncover in them the traces of a transcending judgment that both exalts and humbles us. Their engrossing stories are not the moral parables or cunning plots they appear on the surface to be. Here, Peter Brown offers a highly interdisciplinary examination of these four authors who represent four different faith traditions within Judeo-Christianity: Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, and syncretistic (blending Africanist creole beliefs with Catholicism). All subversive writers, they write in extraordinary ways to undermine their own stories and open us, their readers, to something more, something that transcends time and fate. The close reading this requires from us is part of the trick-and the pleasure. We will read them to listen for this elusive transcendence, a sacred mystery that rebukes both the atheist's weak humanism and the believer's naive supernaturalism"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 255 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780881467680 0881467685 |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments vin Preface in Lieu of a Sermon An Interpretive Strategy: Briefly 1. Malamud’s Imagined Jews “Armistice” “The Cost of Living” “The First Seven Years” “The Magic Barrel” “The Lady of the Lake” “Jewbird” “The Silver Crown” The Natural Imagined Jews 2. O’Connor’s Sacramental Freaks “Revelation” “Everything That Rises Must Converge” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Sacramental Freaks 1 13 19 19 27 28 34 38 43 50 55 61 63 67 78 85 100 3. Updike’s Secular Puritans Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit at Rest Rabbit Remembered Secular Puritans 101 լ 10 22g 138 լ4լ 150 լ 53 A Morrison’s Re-Membered Slaves 155 The Bluest Eye Paradise Re-membered Slaves լ уз լ ^g շլ6
Philosophical Coda: Our Narrative Knowledge of the God of Good and Evil The God of Science and Philosophy The God of Testimony Casting out the Idols God as Creator God as Ruler God as Judge Original Sin 219 220 222 228 231 232 234 237 Bibliography 241 Index 251
Wc live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of us can manage. Can wc still find spiritual truths that will restore a sense of a higher meaning to our lives? For millennia, people have looked to literature, to scriptures, epics, poems, plays, novels, and films for insights into the human condition. In our increasingly rationalized world, some of these contemporary story tellers— like a Bernard Malamud. Flannery O Connor, John Updike, or Toni Morrison—stretch their art to find new words for the sacred. The God for whom they listen is elusive, a mystery. Their stories and novels are not make-believe accounts of a supernatural Being. They are stories that dig beneath all the ordinary ways we try to justify our lives to uncover in them the traces of a transcending judgment that both exalts and humbles us. Their engrossing stories are not just the moral para bles or cunning plots they appear on the surface to be. Peter Brown offers a highly interdisciplinary examina tion of these four authors who represent four different faith traditions within J u deo-C h r i st i a n i ty: lewish. Catholic, Protestant, and syncretistic (blending Afri canist creole beliefs with Catholicism). All subversive writers, they work in extraordinary ways tei undermine their own stories and open us, their readers, to some thing more, something that transcends time and fate. The close reading this requires from us is part of the trick—anti the pleasure. Brown
invites us to reread them to listen for this elusive transcendence, a sacred mystery that rebukes both the atheist s weak humanism and the believer s naïve supernaturalism
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Contents Acknowledgments vin Preface in Lieu of a Sermon An Interpretive Strategy: Briefly 1. Malamud’s Imagined Jews “Armistice” “The Cost of Living” “The First Seven Years” “The Magic Barrel” “The Lady of the Lake” “Jewbird” “The Silver Crown” The Natural Imagined Jews 2. O’Connor’s Sacramental Freaks “Revelation” “Everything That Rises Must Converge” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Sacramental Freaks 1 13 19 19 27 28 34 38 43 50 55 61 63 67 78 85 100 3. Updike’s Secular Puritans Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit at Rest Rabbit Remembered Secular Puritans 101 լ 10 22g 138 լ4լ 150 լ 53 A Morrison’s Re-Membered Slaves 155 The Bluest Eye Paradise Re-membered Slaves լ уз լ ^g շլ6
Philosophical Coda: Our Narrative Knowledge of the God of Good and Evil The God of Science and Philosophy The God of Testimony Casting out the Idols God as Creator God as Ruler God as Judge Original Sin 219 220 222 228 231 232 234 237 Bibliography 241 Index 251
Wc live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of us can manage. Can wc still find spiritual truths that will restore a sense of a higher meaning to our lives? For millennia, people have looked to literature, to scriptures, epics, poems, plays, novels, and films for insights into the human condition. In our increasingly rationalized world, some of these contemporary story tellers— like a Bernard Malamud. Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, or Toni Morrison—stretch their art to find new words for the sacred. The God for whom they listen is elusive, a mystery. Their stories and novels are not make-believe accounts of a supernatural Being. They are stories that dig beneath all the ordinary ways we try to justify our lives to uncover in them the traces of a transcending judgment that both exalts and humbles us. Their engrossing stories are not just the moral para bles or cunning plots they appear on the surface to be. Peter Brown offers a highly interdisciplinary examina tion of these four authors who represent four different faith traditions within J u deo-C h r i st i a n i ty: lewish. Catholic, Protestant, and syncretistic (blending Afri canist creole beliefs with Catholicism). All subversive writers, they work in extraordinary ways tei undermine their own stories and open us, their readers, to some thing more, something that transcends time and fate. The close reading this requires from us is part of the trick—anti the pleasure. Brown
invites us to reread them to listen for this elusive transcendence, a sacred mystery that rebukes both the atheist's weak humanism and the believer's naïve supernaturalism |
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| spelling | Brown, Peter C. 1942- Verfasser (DE-588)1302435124 aut Listening for God Malamud, O'Connor, Updike, & Morrison Peter C. Brown Macon, Georgia Mercer University Press [2020] 255 Seiten 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "We live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of us can manage. Can we still find spiritual truths that will restore a sense of a higher meaning to our lives? For millennia, people have looked to literature, to scriptures, epics, poems, plays, novels, and films for insights into the human condition. In our increasingly rationalized world, some of these contemporary storytellers-like a Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, or Toni Morrison-stretch their art to find new words for the sacred. The God for whom they listen is elusive, a mystery. Their stories and novels are not make-believe accounts of a supernatural Being. They are stories that dig beneath all the ordinary ways we try to justify our lives to uncover in them the traces of a transcending judgment that both exalts and humbles us. Their engrossing stories are not the moral parables or cunning plots they appear on the surface to be. Here, Peter Brown offers a highly interdisciplinary examination of these four authors who represent four different faith traditions within Judeo-Christianity: Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, and syncretistic (blending Africanist creole beliefs with Catholicism). All subversive writers, they write in extraordinary ways to undermine their own stories and open us, their readers, to something more, something that transcends time and fate. The close reading this requires from us is part of the trick-and the pleasure. We will read them to listen for this elusive transcendence, a sacred mystery that rebukes both the atheist's weak humanism and the believer's naive supernaturalism"-- Malamud, Bernard 1914-1986 (DE-588)11857664X gnd rswk-swf O'Connor, Flannery 1925-1964 (DE-588)11858930X gnd rswk-swf Updike, John 1932-2009 (DE-588)118803492 gnd rswk-swf Morrison, Toni 1931-2019 (DE-588)118911627 gnd rswk-swf Religion Motiv (DE-588)4207560-9 gnd rswk-swf Gott Motiv (DE-588)4157941-0 gnd rswk-swf Malamud, Bernard O'Connor, Flannery Updike, John Morrison, Toni Holy, The, in literature Holy, The Sacré dans la littérature Sacré Updike, John 1932-2009 (DE-588)118803492 p Malamud, Bernard 1914-1986 (DE-588)11857664X p Morrison, Toni 1931-2019 (DE-588)118911627 p O'Connor, Flannery 1925-1964 (DE-588)11858930X p Religion Motiv (DE-588)4207560-9 s Gott Motiv (DE-588)4157941-0 s DE-604 Digitalisierung UB Augsburg - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034255619&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Augsburg - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034255619&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
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| title | Listening for God Malamud, O'Connor, Updike, & Morrison |
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| title_full | Listening for God Malamud, O'Connor, Updike, & Morrison Peter C. Brown |
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| title_short | Listening for God |
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| topic | Malamud, Bernard 1914-1986 (DE-588)11857664X gnd O'Connor, Flannery 1925-1964 (DE-588)11858930X gnd Updike, John 1932-2009 (DE-588)118803492 gnd Morrison, Toni 1931-2019 (DE-588)118911627 gnd Religion Motiv (DE-588)4207560-9 gnd Gott Motiv (DE-588)4157941-0 gnd |
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