Reading an erased code : romantic religion and literary aesthetics in France / Michel Despland.

Author
Despland, Michel [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1994.
Description
viii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.

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    • University of Toronto romance series (Unnumbered) [More in this series]
    • University of Toronto romance series
    Summary note
    The end of the eighteenth century, an age of political and cultural crisis particularly in France, saw a shift in the meaning of belief. Simply put, a break in continuity occurred between the old, religious and a new, literary reading of Scripture. Michel Despland selects five writers who were caught up in this new reading of the old religious text and who came to write about religion in innovative ways. The five writers treated by Despland helped shape a broader definition of belief, one that included individual sensibility. The works they produced are, in a sense, new religious texts. They did not just restate or reinterpret the code, but achieved a new kind of narrative, which has become dominant in the modern era and has shaped individual relationships to all codes.
    Notes
    Chiefly material previously published in various publications between 1983 and 1989.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and indexes.
    Contents
    • Introduction: New writing, new reading
    • 1. Confession without confessor: Rousseau
    • 2. To interpose a little ease: Chateaubriand
    • 3. A different economy for belief: Nodier
    • 4. Civility and belief: Vigny
    • 5. Writing words of life: Nerval
    • Conclusion: Beyond any greater code.
    ISBN
    • 0802005780 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780802005786 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    95165490
    OCLC
    30361059
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