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- catalog abstract "Whatever a writer's religious assumptions and histories, the literary device of omniscient narration traps a writer into a pose as God, at least some sort of God, be it one the writer eschews, avows, or longs for. In this study, Barbara K. Olson examines the relationship between both the writer and the omniscient narrator to God. Olson explains how modernists Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf both illustrate how authors' particular styles of omniscience bear a reliable though variable relation to their own or their culture's particular conceptions of God. The experience of novelists generally attests to perennial theological conundrums into which their creating and narrating have cast them - transcendence vs. immanence, providential care vs. cosmic capriciousness, determinism vs. freedom. Not surprisingly, such atheists as John Fowles and Ronald Sukenick have aimed their narrational experiments in omniscience at subverting what Fowles has called the "godgame" that this device requires. Such other writers as Flannery O'Connor, Graham Greene, and Murial Spark have predictably relied on the device as one consonant with their theistic assumptions.".
- catalog alternative "Authorial divinity in the 20th century".
- catalog contributor b10330658.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. Authorial Divinity: Historical and Theoretical Considerations -- 2. "I Don't Like to Write Like God": Hemingway's Omniscient Narration -- 3. "Who Thinks It?" Process Theism and Woolf's Omniscient Narration -- 4. Authorial Divinity: Concluding Considerations.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-146) and index.".
- catalog description "The experience of novelists generally attests to perennial theological conundrums into which their creating and narrating have cast them - transcendence vs. immanence, providential care vs. cosmic capriciousness, determinism vs. freedom. Not surprisingly, such atheists as John Fowles and Ronald Sukenick have aimed their narrational experiments in omniscience at subverting what Fowles has called the "godgame" that this device requires. Such other writers as Flannery O'Connor, Graham Greene, and Murial Spark have predictably relied on the device as one consonant with their theistic assumptions.".
- catalog description "Whatever a writer's religious assumptions and histories, the literary device of omniscient narration traps a writer into a pose as God, at least some sort of God, be it one the writer eschews, avows, or longs for. In this study, Barbara K. Olson examines the relationship between both the writer and the omniscient narrator to God. Olson explains how modernists Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf both illustrate how authors' particular styles of omniscience bear a reliable though variable relation to their own or their culture's particular conceptions of God.".
- catalog extent "152 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Authorial divinity in the twentieth century.".
- catalog identifier "0838753167 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Authorial divinity in the twentieth century.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Authorial divinity in the twentieth century.".
- catalog subject "823/.9120923 20".
- catalog subject "Fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Technique.".
- catalog subject "Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 Technique.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric) History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "Omniscience (Theory of knowledge)".
- catalog subject "PR6045.O72 Z8535 1997".
- catalog subject "Point of view (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Technique.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Authorial Divinity: Historical and Theoretical Considerations -- 2. "I Don't Like to Write Like God": Hemingway's Omniscient Narration -- 3. "Who Thinks It?" Process Theism and Woolf's Omniscient Narration -- 4. Authorial Divinity: Concluding Considerations.".
- catalog title "Authorial divinity in the 20th century".
- catalog title "Authorial divinity in the twentieth century : omniscient narration in Woolf, Hemingway, and others / Barbara K. Olson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".