Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism

by Christina Bieber Lake

Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism argues that theology is crucial to understanding the power of contemporary American stories. By drawing on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Christian personalism, and contemporary phenomenology, Lake argues that literary fiction activates an irreducibly personal intersubjectivity between author, reader, and characters. Stories depend on a dignity-granting valuation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268106258
• ISBN13: 9780268106256
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"