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A Theology of Sense

John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature

Pocket
Engelsk
Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
A Theology of Sense
A Theology of Sense
  • Forfatter: Scott Dill
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 198
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
  • EAN: 9780814255001
  • Utgivelsesår: 2018
  • Bidragsyter: Dill, Scott
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Scott Dill''s A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature brings together theology, aesthetics, and the body, arguing that Updike, a central figure in post-1945 American literature, deeply embeds in his work questions of the body and the senses with questions of theology. Dill offers new understandings not only of the work of Updike-which is importantly being revisited since the author''s death in 2009-but also new understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, religion, and physical experience.

Dill explores Updike''s unique literary legacy in order to argue for a genuinely postsecular theory of aesthetic experience. Each chapter takes up one of the five senses and its relation to broader theoretical concerns: affect, subjectivity, ontology, ethics, and theology. While placing Updike''s work in relation to other late twentieth-century American writers, Dill explains their notions