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As We Are Known: Representations of the Evangelical Experience in Literature of the 20th & 21st Centuries

Speaker(s): Maxine Hancock
Date: June 28 - July 9, 2004
Length: 14:10:00
Product ID: RGDL3413S

Description

This series examines some of the ways in which evangelical religious experiences, especially those of conversion, worship, witness and community, have been portrayed in twentieth-century fiction. Maxine Hancock takes a look at sympathetic and unsympathetic representations, considering a range of "angles of vision" on the part of writers and works, focusing her attention in particular on Canadian and American writers of the second half of the century. Lectures include:

• Gaining an Historical Perspective
• Angles & Agendas - Outside Looking In: Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, W. O. Mitchell, Barbara Kingsolver
• Angles & Agendas - Alongside Looking At: Flannery O'Connor, Chaim Potock, Margaret Laurence
• Angles & Agendas - Moving On, Looking Back: Garrison Keillor, Shirley Nelson, Joy Kogowa
• Angles & Agendas - Within the Faith, Looking Through: John Updike, Walter Wangerin Jr., Rudy Wiebe
• Representing Key Characteristics of Evangelical Experience
• The Influence of Evangelicalism on Fiction
• Responding to a Rising Genre: Reading and Writing Fiction of Faith

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