American Catholic Arts and Fictions

Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics

By:

Paul Giles

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds such as Orestes Brownson, Theodore Dreiser, Mary McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Altman. The book also explores how Catholicism was represented and mythologized by other American writers. By highlighting the recurring themes and preoccupations of American Catholic fictions, Giles challenges many of the accepted ideas about the centrality of Romanticism to the American literary canon. He reconstructs the different social, historical, and philosophical contexts from which aesthetics in the "Catholic" tradition have emerged, and shows how these stand in an oblique relationship to the assumptions of the American Enlightenment.

Release date NZ

June 26th, 1992

Author

Paul Giles

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

564

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

159x236x39

ISBN-13

9780521417778

Product ID

1984192

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