Faith and Fiction: The Novels of Callaghan and Hood

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Author/collaborator
Title
Faith and Fiction: The Novels of Callaghan and Hood
Abstract
The author examines the problems of dramatizing a religious vision in the realistic novel. She contends that Montreal author Hugh Hood’s solution to the problem is to redefine the fictional form to convey his orthodox Christian vision. She notes that Hood has explored the parable, the romance, the realistic novel and the fantasy-satire; in "The New Age" he attempts to combine the modes of the realistic novel and the Christian allegory. The author argues that the results, only partially successful, demonstrate again the internal tensions in the religious novel.
Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d'études canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 18
Issue
no. 2
Pages
5-17
Date
Summer 1983
Language
en
Citation
Pell, Barbara. “Faith and Fiction: The Novels of Callaghan and Hood.” Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes Vol. 18, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 5–17.
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