Narrative Faith engages with the faith and doubt dynamic to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. Starting with Dostoevsky's Demons (1872), the study describes a literary petite histoire that problematizes faith in two ways - discourse within the story and strategies used to tell that story - causing readers to doubt the narrators and their narratives. The study further examines Albert Camus's The Plague (1947) and Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Penitent (1973/83) - works by twentieth-century authors who similarly intensify questions of faith...
Narrative Faith engages with the faith and doubt dynamic to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. Start...