Northrop Frye and American Fiction

by Claude Le Fustec

Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences. Inspired by recent philosophical thinking on post-secularism and by Northrop Frye's theorizing on the connections between the Bible and the development of Western literature, Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442647698
• ISBN13: 9781442647695
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher