Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction

by Michael O'Connell

Book Overview

Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in contemporary Catholic fiction frequently struggle with doubt and fear, these works retain a belief in the possibility for transcendent meaning and value beyond the limits of the purely secular. Individual chapters include close readings of some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531503462
• ISBN13: 9781531503468
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"