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Purpose and Providence
Vernon White
其他書名
Taking Soundings in Western Thought, Literature & Theology
出版Bloomsbury T & T Clark US, 2015
ISBN05676634509780567663450
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wGSNswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Do our lives have purpose? Despite the rise of secularism, we are still confronted by a sense of meaning and direction in the events of history and our own lives - something which is beyond us and not our own creation/imagination. Using the novels of Thomas Hardy and Julian Barnes, Vernon White tracks this belief in intellectual history and tests its resilience in modern literature. Both novelists portray modern and late-modern scenarios where, although the idea of an objective purpose has been deconstructed, it still haunts the protagonists. Using literature as the starting point, the discus.