UNCIVIL RITES: American Fiction, Religion, and the Public Sphere (Public Express Religion America) - Softcover

Detweiler, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252065808 ISBN 13: 9780252065804

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1996

Synopsis

Robert Detweiler explores how religious values are publicly expressed in fiction, drama, and film, and how such discourse influence and shape public values. Integral to Detweiler's close readings is the view that novel as an art form does not represent and reinforce the views and attitudes of the dominant culture, a view that was prominent in the academia, but it constructs particular as opposed to overarching and hegemonic identities. Novel thus becomes a vehicle for expressing the views of a "subaltern counterpublic" and articulates their concerns, identities, and needs.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0252065808
• ISBN 13: 9780252065804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250