God Behind the Screen: Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion
God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres, written by authors such as Aldous Huxley, Jane Austin, Sinclair Lewis, and Steven King, who are fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Milton
Routledge
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Ser
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| Further subjects: | B
Psychology, Pathological, in literature
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Andrijasevic, Janko: God Behind the Screen : Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion. - Milton : Routledge,c2018. - 9781138339040 |
| Summary: | God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres, written by authors such as Aldous Huxley, Jane Austin, Sinclair Lewis, and Steven King, who are fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: On Personality and Spirituality -- 1 The Levels of Personality - Corpus et Animam -- 2 Generally on Religion -- PART II: Portraits of Religious Maturity -- 3 The Constant Seeker: Larry Darrell and Mature Religiosity -- 4 The Slow-Witted Mystic: Mrs. Dempster and Fool-Saintly Religiosity -- PART III: Portraits of Religious Pathology -- 5 Hustling Man of the Cloth: Elmer Gantry and Narcissistic Religiosity -- 6 A Demon Next to an Angel: Father Joseph and Masochistic Religiosity -- 7 Preacher of the Poisonwood Bible: Nathan Price and Antisocial Religiosity -- 8 Case Studies of Minor Characters -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (215 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-429-79586-2 |
