The Divine And Human Comedy Of Andrew M Greeley

Author : Allienne R. Becker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313030677
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley written by Allienne R. Becker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume approaches Greeleys novels by comparing him to the 19th-century French writer Honoré de Balzac. A prolific and popular author, Balzac recorded his milieu in tremendous detail, created a fictional universe peopled by hundreds of characters, and explored the role of Catholicism in his world. Because of his training as a sociologist, Greeley brings to his novels a thorough knowledge of popular culture and social theory. And because of his experience as a Roman Catholic priest, he has gained special knowledge of vice, virtue, and the workings of the Church. Like Balzac—now a major canonical author—Greeley has created a world of numerous fictional persons, mapped the details of his culture, and explored the place of Catholicism in contemporary life.

Author : Allienne R. Becker
Publisher : Allienne Becker
ISBN 13 : 0595223591
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andrew M. Greeley written by Allienne R. Becker and published by Allienne Becker. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew M. Greeley's Blackie Ryan stories are reviewed and explicated in this study of the author's novels featuring the delightful and leprechaun like detective. The book surveys detective fiction in which the unique, irrestible, and sometimes irrepressible Blackie Ryan, who is sometimes, but not always, a persona for the author, appears. A composite portrait of Blackie is drawn for the reader. The themes—both sociological and religious—that occur in the fiction are highlighted and explored, as are the various literary devices that the author employs to create his stories. The book includes a "Foreword" written by Andrew M. Greeley, world renowned sociologist, priest, and Professor of Social Science at the university of Chicago.

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313076359
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Post-Utopian Imagination written by M. Keith Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This book studies how American novels and films of the long 1950s reflect the loss of the utopian imagination and mirror the growing concern that capitalism brought routinization, alienation, and other dehumanizing consequences. The volume relates the decline of the utopian vision to the rise of late capitalism, with its expanding globalization and consumerism, and to the beginnings of postmodernism. In addition to well-known literary novels, such as Nabokov's Lolita, Booker explores a large body of leftist fiction, popular novels, and the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. The book argues that while the canonical novels of the period employ a utopian aesthetic, that aesthetic tends to be very weak and is not reinforced by content. The leftist novels, on the other hand, employ a realist aesthetic but are utopian in their exploration of alternatives to capitalism. The study concludes that the utopian energies in cultural productions of the long 1950s are very weak, and that these works tend to dismiss utopian thinking as na^Dive or even sinister. The weak utopianism in these works tends to be reflected in characteristics associated with postmodernism.

Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Thomas More
ISBN 13 : 9780883472156
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Andrew Greeley Reader written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Thomas More. This book was released on 1987 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Midamerica written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1520 pages
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Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Author : Tracey Watson
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN 13 : 9780787667283
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors New Revision Series written by Tracey Watson and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.

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Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Author : L. Lamar Nisly
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impossible to Say written by L. Lamar Nisly and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nisly (English, Bluffton College) pairs two writers from Catholic and two from Judaic tradition to examine similar representations of religious mystery among them. He finds that the religious mystery of both Catholicism and rabbinic Judaism occupies a middle position between rationality and indeterminacy, and focuses his study on that dimension that is beyond final explanation but maintain a firm foundation. c. Book News Inc.