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“I pray all the tim...
“I pray all the time”: Genre, address, and self-examination in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead
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- Agrell, Beata, 1944 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion,Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
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- Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2021
- 2021
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Marilynne Robinson and Theology, eds. Håkan Möller & Ola Sigurdson.. - Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. - 0348-1433. - 9789188763259 ; , s. 111-124
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Abstract
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- This chapter investigates how various genres of first person narrative interact within the discourse of epistolarity in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead, dealing with an old dying father and clergyman writing to his very young son. The analysis exposes how this interaction is governed by the narrator’s ambition to unselfishly guide and help his son – in vain trying to forget his own personal failures, desires, dilemmas and feelings of guilt. Most interesting is how the formal-rhetorical swaying of the text activates and illustrates deep theological issues of love, sin, guilt and forgiveness.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Religious Studies (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturstudier (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Literatures (hsv//eng)
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- Christianity
- Narrative
- Forgiveness
- Contemplative Prayer
- Genre Analysis
- Marilynne Robinson
- Guilt
- Grace
- Epistolarity
- Addressivity
- Diary fiction
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