Breaking the fall : religious readings of contemporary fiction

Shriven selves; religious problems in recent American fiction

Religious perspectives in Faulkner's fiction: Yoknapatawpha and beyond.

Faith in fiction : the emergence of religious literature in America

The gospel according to the novelist : religious scripture and contemporary fiction

New directions in religion and literature

New directions in religion and literature.

Impossible to say : representing religious mystery in fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick, and O'Connor

Contributions to the study of American literature,

The stem cell divide : the facts, the fiction, and the fear driving the greatest scientific, political, and religious debate of our time

Science fiction

The Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres

Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres.

Science fiction as a literary movement / The literature of human possibility / Science fiction as classic romance / The potential for social criticism / The feminist struggle in science fiction / Verne and Wells : the two fathers of modern science fiction / An insider remembers the pulp era / New worlds and the new wave / A cyberpunk manifesto / Negative utopias and Orwell's dark vision / The paradoxes of time travel / Understanding the alien / The robot as symbol / Religious and spiritual aspects of science fiction / Frankenstein and the female voice in science fiction / Asimov and the morality of artificial intelligence / The nature of reality / An un-credible genre / Good and bad mythmaking

The philosophy of film noir

Nietzsche and the meaning and definition of noir / A darker shade: realism in neo-noir / Moral clarity and practical reason in film noir / Cherchez la femme fatale: the mother of film noir / From Sherlock Holmes to the hard-boiled detective in film noir / Film noir and the meaning of life / The horizon of disenchantment: film noir, Camus, and the vicissitudes of descent / Symbolism, meaning, and nihilism in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction / Film noir and the Frankfurt School: America as wasteland in Edgar Ulmer's Detour / Knowledge, morality, and tragedy in The killers and Out of the past / Moral man in the dark city: film noir, the postwar religious revival, and The accused / On reason and passion in The Maltese falcon / Ride the pink horse: money, mischance, murder, and the monads of film noir

Critical encounters : literary views and reviews, 1953-1977

Prophetic vogue of the anti-heroine. Crisis -- in fiction or in readership? Flight from innocence : England's newest literary generation. New Transcendentalists : a quasi-religious mode in American fiction multiform American imagination. Unwilling ironists -- Writer and her vision : Ivy Compton-Burnett. Carson McCullers : love perverse and perfect. Affirmation and love in T.S. Eliot. Huxley revisited. Shaw and his Boswell. Memo : to Bernard Shaw. Reviews by Trilling. Criticism par excellence : V.S. Pritchett. Tragedy of delusion : criticism by Joyce Carol Oates. Poet of the air -- and earth : Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Beautiful and undammed : stories by Fitzgerald. Where the center always holds : stories by Brendan Gill. God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut. Realists of the interior : women poets of today. Bitches and sad ladies. World of William Saroyan. Day of one's own : Eudora Welty -- Spearhead of British modernism. Passion for letters : Scofield Thayer and the Dial. Specialist of the hoax : Max Beerbohm. Black odyssey, white world. Britain's lopsided view. Despiritualized Americans : Soviet views of American literature. Charmed circle : the Irish writers -- Lowly state of book reviewing. Poets, printers and pamphleteers. They gambled on genius.

British Victorian literature : recent revaluations

Victorianism: Victorianism / Toward a definition of Victorian activism / Poetry: Communication and the Victorian poet / The intellectual quest of the Victorian poets / The jewelled bow: a study of Browning's imagery and humanism / The moment in th dramatic monologues of Robert Browning / Tennyson: artifice and image / The contraries: a central concept in Tennyson's poetry / Equilibrium in the poetry of Matthew Arnold / Kipling / Swinburne / Intress of Inscape: G.M. Hopkins / Pre-Raphaelite poetry / Fiction: The modern values of Victorian fiction / Religious humanism and the Victorian novel: a postscript / Determinism and responsibility in the works of George Eliot / The heroes and heroines of Dickens / Truth about the whole range of society: W.M. Thackeray / Hardy's major fiction / Charlotte and Emily Bronte / The novels of George Meredith / Henry James and the trapped spectator / Henry James: the private universe / Prose: Calm between crises: pattern and direction in Ruskin's mature thought / Thomas Carlyle / Newman and the Oxford Movement / Lytton Strachey's conception of biography / Criticism: Between two worlds: Matthew Arnold and romanticism / Walter Pater's literary theory and criticism / Drama: The divide self in the society comedies of Oscar Wilde

Locations of the sacred : essays on religion, literature, and Canadian culture

Dislocating the Sacred: The Protestant Voice -- The Protestant Voice -- A Protestant Trio: Davies, MacLennan, and Laurence -- Imprisonment and Liberation -- How Is Canadian Literature "Religious"? -- The Protestant Principle in English-Canadian Fiction -- A Tentative Conclusion -- Relocating the Sacred: The Human Ground of Transcendence -- Eternity and Transcendence -- "Eternity" in Callaghan and MacLennan -- The Ordinary and the Sacred in Mitchell and Munro -- Divining the Depths in Davies, Laurence, and Atwood -- Nature as the Locale of the Sacred -- Native and Christian Attitudes -- Some Typical Canadian Views -- Geography over History -- A New Direction -- In Quest of the Sacred: The Canoe Trip -- The Quest Pattern -- States of the Quest -- Transformative Quest and Canadian Character -- The Canoe Trip as Initiation Rite -- Sacred Death: The Belcher Islands Massacre -- Geographical and Religious Backgrounds -- Narrative of the Events -- The Contemporary Reaction to the Murders -- Analysis -- A Personal Epilogue -- Theodicy and the Sacred: A.M. Klein and Hugh MacLennan -- Parallel Dislocations -- The Second Scroll as Theodicy -- The Watch that Ends the Night and Selfhood -- The Everyman and the Self -- Chaos into Cosmos -- Love and the Sacred: The Ambiguities of Morley Callaghan's Such Is My Beloved -- Callaghan's "Certain Perceptions" -- The Two Conflicting Realms -- The Song of Songs: Love and the Sacred -- Conclusion: Incarnational Humanism -- Sacred Passages: Native Symbols in Atwood and Engel.