Two Montreal Theodicies: Hugh MacLennan's The Watch that Ends the Night and A. M. Klein's The Second Scroll

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Two Montreal Theodicies: Hugh MacLennan's The Watch that Ends the Night and A. M. Klein's The Second Scroll
Abstract
Published in the same decade by two Montreal writers, the author argues that Hugh MacLennan's The Watch That Ends The Night (1959) and A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll (1951) bear comparison at several points. He points out that each novel is strongly autobiographical, resonant with experiences from the authors' lives; each probes the devastating events of twentieth-century history from a mid-century vantage point; each attempts a theodicy, launched by questions about a providential God's role in the historical drama; and each self-consciously breaks new fictional ground, using stylistic techniques appropriate to the demands of a new theme.
Publication
Literature & Theology: an International Journal of Theory, Criticism & Culture
Volume
Vol. 7
Issue
no. 2
Pages
198-206
Date
June 1993
Language
en
Citation
James, William Closson. “Two Montreal Theodicies: Hugh MacLennan’s The Watch That Ends the Night and A. M. Klein’s The Second Scroll.” Literature & Theology: an International Journal of Theory, Criticism & Culture Vol. 7, no. 2 (June 1993): 198–206.
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