Between Human and Divine: The Catholic Vision in Contemporary Literature

Contents

v Contents Introduction 1 Mary R. Reichardt Chapter 1 Shades of Redemption in Alice McDermott’s Novels 15 Patricia L. Schnapp, RSM Chapter 2 How Far Can You Go? to Therapy Catholicism and Postmodernism in the Novels of David Lodge 32 Daniel S. Lenoski Chapter 3 “Descending Theology” The Poetry of Mary Karr 50 Robert P. Lewis Chapter 4 An Irish Catholic Novel? The Example of Brian Moore and John McGahern 69 Eamon Maher Chapter 5 The Never-Ending Reformation Miguel Delibes’s The Heretic 86 Salvador A. Oropesa Chapter 6 Some Contexts for Current Catholic Women’s Memoir Patricia Hampl and Her Contemporaries 103 Nan Metzger and Wendy A. Weaver Chapter 7 “A Ransom of Cholers” Catastrophe, Consolation, and Catholicism in Jon Hassler’s Staggerford, North of Hope, and The Life and Death of Nancy Clancy’s Nephew 119 Ed Block vi Contents Chapter 8 Our Litany The Varied Voices and Common Vision of Three Contemporary Catholic Poets 136 Gary M. Bouchard Chapter 9 Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote A Pilgrimage of Doubt and Reason toward Faith and Belief 154 Michael G. Brennan Chapter 10 Contemporary British Catholic Writers Alice Thomas Ellis, Piers Paul Read, William Brodrick, and Jonathan Tulloch 171 J. C. Whitehouse Chapter 11 The Contemporary Catholic Bildungsroman Passionate Conviction in Shūsaku Endō’s The Samurai and Mary Gordon’s Men and Angels 189 Nancy Ann Watanabe Chapter 12 “Art with Its Largesse and Its Own Restraint” The Sacramental Poetics of Elizabeth Jennings and Les Murray 207 Stephen McInerney Chapter 13 The Estrangement of Emilio Sandoz, S.J. Othering in Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow 226 Davin Heckman Chapter 14 Restoring the Imago Dei Transcendental Realism in the Fiction of Michael D. O’Brien 242 Dominic Manganiello Chapter 15 Maiden Mothers and Little Sisters The Convent Novel Grows Up 262 Meoghan B. Cronin Bibliography 281 About the Editor and Contributors 291 Index 297 Between Human and Divine ...