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 | | Religion and Sexuality in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Ann-Janine Morey ISBN-10: 9780521416764 ISBN-10: 0-521-41676-0 ISBN-13: 9780521416764 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-41676-4 Hardcover 1992-06-26 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Through the voice of American fiction, Religion and Sexuality in American Fiction examines the relations of body and spirit (religion and sexuality) by asking two basic questions: How have American novelists handled the interaction between religious and sexual experience? Are there instructive similarities and differences in how male and female authors write about religion and sexuality? Using both canonical and noncanonical fiction, Ann-Janine Morey examines novels dealing with the ministry as the medium wherein so many of the tensions of religion and sexuality are dramatized, and then moves to contemporary novels that deal with moral and religious issues through metaphor. Based on a sophisticated and selective application of metaphor theory, deconstruction, and feminist postmodernism, Morey argues that while American fiction has replicated many traditional animosities, there are also some rather surprising resources here for commonality between men and women if we acknowledge and understand the intimate relationship between language and physical life. | ||
Book Description Religion and Sexuality in American Literature examines the relations of body and spirit in both novels which deal with the ministry and those which deal with moral and religious issues through metaphor. | ||