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Disintegration And Despair In The Early Fiction Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
Disintegration And Despair In The Early Fiction Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
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Catholicism And National Identity In The Works Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
Catholicism And National Identity In The Works Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
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Wrestling With Religion: Pullman, Pratchett, And The Uses Of Story, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
Wrestling With Religion: Pullman, Pratchett, And The Uses Of Story, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
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While children's and young adult fantasy literature is often concerned with "first things," with the struggle between good and evil, or with the fate of the cosmos, still it is rarely overtly religious in the sense of direct engagement with "faith, religion and church(es)" (Ghesquiere 307). Perhaps it is children's literature's vexed relationship with didacticism that keeps fantasy writers for children from engaging directly with religious language and concepts, or perhaps it is the setting in an alternate world that enables allegorizing impulse rather than direct engagement. In either case, despite a tradition of fables, parables, and allegorical treatments of …