God and Self in the Confessional Novel

• Main Author: Sykes, Jr., John D. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Fiction.; Literature-Philosophy.; Religion-Philosophy.; Literary Theory.; Philosophy of Religion.

God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores 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 August...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Augustine and Rousseau: Confessio laudis, Confessio peccatorum, and the Nature of the Self
• 3. The Sorrows of Young Werther: Confessions without Confession
• 4. Notes from Underground: Self-Deception and the Dialogic Self
• 5. Lancelot: Dialogic Consciousness and the Triadic Self
• 6. Atonement: The Novel's Confessional Limit
• 7. Conclusion.