God And Self In The Confessional Novel by John D. Sykes, Jr., Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

God and Self in the Confessional Novelexplores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the classic confessional texts of Augustine and Rousseau. Employing this framework, John D. Sykes, Jr. examines Goethe'sThe Sorrows of Young Werther, Dostoevsky'sNotes from Underground, Percy'sLancelot, and McEwan'sAtonementto investigate the evolution of confession and guilt in literature from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century. | God And Self In The Confessional Novel by John D. Sykes, Jr., Hardcover | Indigo Chapters