The Pagan Writes Back: When World Religion Meets World Literature

by Zhange Ni

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081393768X
• ISBN13: 9780813937687
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"