Visions of Violence: Christianity and Anti-Humanism in Patricia Highsmith’s Ripliad

Though it may seem godlessly immoral, the celebration of violence in Patricia Highsmith’s Ripliad is rooted in a Calvinistic sense of sin and the vision of human freedom Highsmith discovered in Christian writers. Throughout the five novels composing her Ripliad, Tom Ripley ironically embodies the ta...

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Main Author: Dill, Scott (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2014, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 373-390
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