The gift of story narrating hope in a postmodern world
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waco, Texas :
Baylor University Press
2006
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: narrating hope in a postmodern world / Emily Griesinger
- The postmodern condition
- Inventing hope : the question of belief in Don Delillo's novels / Mark Eaton
- Voices from within : Gloria Anzalda, Bell Hooks, and Roberta Bondi / AnneMarie Bowery
- Time for hope : the sixth sense, American beauty, memento, and twelve monkeys / Brent Laytham
- Beyond futility : American beauty and the book of Ecclesiastes / Robert K. Johnston
- The valley of despair
- Prosaic grace : Doris Betts's souls raised from the dead / Martha Greene Eads
- Narrative bones : Amy Tan's Bonesetter's daughter and Hugh Cook's homecoming man / Elaine Lux
- Hope from a radio : Jurek Becker's Jakob the liar / Eric Sterling
- Friendship and hope : Elie Wiesel's the town beyond the wall / Carole J. Lambert
- Resisting the night
- A passion for the impossible : Richard Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin / Harold K. Bush, Jr.
- The prophetic burden : James Baldwin as a latterday Jeremiah / Kelvin Beliele
- Reconciliation and hope : confessional narratives in South Africa / Susan VanZanten Gallagher
- Adversity and grace
- Hope in hard times : moments of epiphany in illness narratives / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
- Geographies of hope / Kathleen Norris and David Lynch Kevin L. Cole
- Attunement and healing : the fisher king / Michael B. Herzog
- The gift of grace : Isak Dinesen's Babette's feast / Maire Mullins
- Hope and the imagination
- The redress of imagination : Bernard MacLaverty's grace notes / Barry Sloan
- The search for "deeper magic" : J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis / Emily Griesinger
- J.R.R. Tolkien : postmodern visionary of hope / Ralph C. Wood
