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3. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: Modernism and the Death of the Word
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Le Fustec, Claude
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter Cover
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Abbreviations ix
- Introduction: Re-enchantment, Postsecularity, and the Return of Transcendence in Western Culture 1
- 1. The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Imagination and the Kerygmatic Power of Sin 33
- 2. Henry James’s The Europeans: Secularity and the Descent of the Word 53
- 3. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: Modernism and the Death of the Word 79
- 4. Immanent Christianity in The Grapes of Wrath 98
- 5. “In the Name of the Lost Father”: Postsecular Mysticism in On the Road 122
- 6. “I Will Call Them My People”: Toni Morrison’s Postsecular Gospel of Self and Community 145
- Conclusion: Kerygma and the Promises of Postsecular Imagination in Postmodern Times 165
- Notes 171
- Bibliography 209
- Index 221
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter Cover
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Abbreviations ix
- Introduction: Re-enchantment, Postsecularity, and the Return of Transcendence in Western Culture 1
- 1. The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Imagination and the Kerygmatic Power of Sin 33
- 2. Henry James’s The Europeans: Secularity and the Descent of the Word 53
- 3. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: Modernism and the Death of the Word 79
- 4. Immanent Christianity in The Grapes of Wrath 98
- 5. “In the Name of the Lost Father”: Postsecular Mysticism in On the Road 122
- 6. “I Will Call Them My People”: Toni Morrison’s Postsecular Gospel of Self and Community 145
- Conclusion: Kerygma and the Promises of Postsecular Imagination in Postmodern Times 165
- Notes 171
- Bibliography 209
- Index 221
