The hermeneutics of conversion : fiction and apologetics in François Mauriac and Jean-Paul Sartre
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation analyzes key texts from the 1930s in light of recent scholarly work on secularization. I maintain that conversion novels by Jean-Paul Sartre and François Mauriac function not only as sites for interrogating the credibility of religious forms in the modern world, but also as apologetic tools that train readers in hermeneutic strategies, preparing them for specific modes of engagement in society. For both authors, "the secular" comes to be imagined as a practice of reading guided by a hermeneutic of suspicion. Likewise, a hermeneutic of faith represents a sacred mode of reading. By giving readers hermeneutic training, these texts give credence to Pascal's claim that sustained practices can prepare an individual for conversion, or, as the case of Sartre demonstrates, to prepare an individual to resist conversion.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Lewallen, Jason Andrew |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of French and Italian. |
| Primary advisor | Landy, Joshua, 1965- |
| Thesis advisor | Landy, Joshua, 1965- |
| Thesis advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Thesis advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Thesis advisor | Wittman, Laura |
| Advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Advisor | Wittman, Laura |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jason Andrew Lewallen. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of French and Italian. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2014 by Jason Andrew Lewallen
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