Confronting evil : the psychology of secularization in modern French literature

Confronting evil : the psychology of secularization in modern French literature /

Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature holds that the concept of evil is central to the psychology of secularism. Drawing on notions of secularization as a phenomenon of ambivalence or dualism in which religion continues to exist alongside secularity in exerti...

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Main Author: Powers, Scott M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2016
Series:Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 66.
Subjects:
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
French literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Good and evil in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Secularization > France.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Writing against Theodicy: Secularization in Baudelaire's Poetry and Critical Essays
  • Chapter Two: The Mourning of God and the Ironies of Secularization in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris
  • Chapter Three: Sublimation and Conversion in Zola and Huysmans
  • Chapter Four: The Staging of Doubt: Zola and Huysmans on Lourdes
  • Chapter Five: Religious and Secular Conversions: Transformations in Céline's Medical Perspective on Evil
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book
  • About the Author.

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