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Jacques Chessex : Calvinism and the Text.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: University of Toronto Romance SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442632219
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jacques ChessexLOC classification:
  • PQ2663.H396.B663 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction: Some Preliminary Considerations -- 2 The Calvinist Heritage -- 3 The Nature of Calvinism -- 4 The Ambiguities of a Calvinist -- 5 The Valley of the Shadow -- 6 Les Justes -- 7 The Affirmation of Life -- 8 The Flight from Calvinism -- 9 Division and Unity -- 10 The Text as Unity -- 11 The Text, the World, and Others -- 12 Death, Memory, and the Text -- 13 Conclusion: Religion and the Text -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: David J. Bond provides the first comprehensive study of Jacque Chessex's work in any language--a study that reveals Chessex's deep ambivalence towards his Calvinist heritage and his efforts to resolve this dilemma through his texts.
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction: Some Preliminary Considerations -- 2 The Calvinist Heritage -- 3 The Nature of Calvinism -- 4 The Ambiguities of a Calvinist -- 5 The Valley of the Shadow -- 6 Les Justes -- 7 The Affirmation of Life -- 8 The Flight from Calvinism -- 9 Division and Unity -- 10 The Text as Unity -- 11 The Text, the World, and Others -- 12 Death, Memory, and the Text -- 13 Conclusion: Religion and the Text -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

David J. Bond provides the first comprehensive study of Jacque Chessex's work in any language--a study that reveals Chessex's deep ambivalence towards his Calvinist heritage and his efforts to resolve this dilemma through his texts.

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