Mária Hricková
Literature and Learning in Marilynne Robinson’s Novel Gilead
Číslo: 1/2017
Periodikum: Prague Journal of English Studies
Klíčová slova: Literature; learning; narrative; meaning of life; wisdom
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Anotace:
Literature and learning play an important role in Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel Gilead (2004). By focusing on the author’s many references to
books, literature and learning, the present paper attempts to study their individual
contextual occurrences and explores how they saturate the discursive substratum of
the novel’s major themes. e paper claims that a special role attributed to books and
learning, and particularly to the Greek New Testament, e Trail of the Lonesome
Pine and e Essence of Christianity, sheds signifi cant light on the philosophical
and spiritual aspects of the meaning of life, one of the novel’s central concerns.
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Prize-winning novel Gilead (2004). By focusing on the author’s many references to
books, literature and learning, the present paper attempts to study their individual
contextual occurrences and explores how they saturate the discursive substratum of
the novel’s major themes. e paper claims that a special role attributed to books and
learning, and particularly to the Greek New Testament, e Trail of the Lonesome
Pine and e Essence of Christianity, sheds signifi cant light on the philosophical
and spiritual aspects of the meaning of life, one of the novel’s central concerns.