Secular Conversion: La Nausée as Formative Fiction

This article investigates the uses of familiar conventions of the conversion narrative inJean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel, La Nausee, arguing that in addition to thematic and structural elements, the novel shares the conversion narrative's perlocutionary goal of guiding the readers toward a c...

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Main Author: Lewallen, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dep. 2017
In: Religion & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 47-68
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBE Anthropology
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
Further subjects:B Christian Life
B SUSPICION in literature
B Christianity
B Hermeneutics
B LA Nausee (Book)
B Philosophy
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