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The Pagan Writes Back: When World Religion Meets World Literature (Studies in Religion and Culture)
Zhange Ni
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Hardcover. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 End? Sh?saku and the Chinese Gao Xingjian), Ni reads their fiction, drama, and prose to envision a ""pagan ... Read more
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 End? Sh?saku and the Chinese Gao Xingjian), Ni reads their fiction, drama, and prose to envision a ""pagan ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Religion and Culture
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937670
SKU
V9780813937670
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About Zhange Ni
Zhange Ni is Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech, USA.
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