The Dark Dove : The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature 9780295805252, 9780295953779

In a subtle exposition of the tension between sacred and secular themes in twentieth-century literature, Eugene Webb ana

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The Dark Dove : The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature
9780295805252, 9780295953779

American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this

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The opposition between 'religion' and 'modernity' has long held the status of a self-evident truth.

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When the basic conceptions of the world held by whole generations in the West are formed by popular culture, and in part

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Newman explores a wealth of case studies in French, English, and Latin texts that concentrate on instances of paradox, c

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The opposition between ‘religion’ and ‘modernity’ has long held the status of a self-evident truth. Recently, however, t

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Focusing on European and American trial fiction since about 1880, Dark Mirror argues that although it is generally anima

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Contributed articles.

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When the Turkish republic was founded in 1923, secularism was adopted as one of the key principles of the new state, and

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This book is the first full-length study of the postsecular in African literatures. Religion, secularism, and the intric

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