Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council: A Semiotic Analysis

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 18 mar 2019 - 186 pagine

This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed by Italian writers about the biblical narration of human origins and traditional religious language and ritual, the perceived clash between the immanent and transcendent nature and role of the Church, and the problematic notion of sanctity emerging from contemporary narrative.

 

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Introduction
1
1 Semiotic Ideology and Religious Themes in Italian Fiction
14
2 Literary Representations of Rituals and Liturgical Latin
46
3 The Thematic Role of the Pope between Immanence and Transcendence
84
4 Atypical Models of Sanctity
121
Conclusion
162
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Jenny Ponzo, Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich, Germany.

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