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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Johns Hopkins University Press
2014
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2014, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 373-390 |
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