God and Self in the Confessional Novel

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 August...

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1. Verfasser: Sykes, Jr., John D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
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Fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Religion-Philosophy.
ISBN:9783319913223
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.

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