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Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council

A Semiotic Analysis
By:Jenny Ponzo
Publisher:De Gruyter
Print ISBN:9783110499841
eText ISBN:9783110496024
Edition:1
Copyright:2019
Format:Reflowable

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This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed by Italian writers about the biblical narration of human origins and traditional religious language and ritual, the perceived clash between the immanent and transcendent nature and role of the Church, and the problematic notion of sanctity emerging from contemporary narrative.