The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin12821679342021-08-03T06:14:20Z The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel Green, Charles American Literature The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel explores the relationship between knowledge and belief. The narrator, Thomas Miller, tells the story of his best friend from childhood, Adam Ellison, who claims to be the second son of God. Though Thomas doubts the existence of God, much less Adam's divinity, from an intellectual perspective, often he feels an instinctive, emotional pull toward faith. To reconcile these contradictory views, he writes the story of Adam's life in two parts: one as a straightforward biography or memoir, the other as his own Gospel version of Adam's life. With that structure in mind, the novel carries forward the structural interests of such novels as Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire and Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright. That dual structure allows me to merge two diverse traditions of fiction: the realistic and the speculative. Merging those traditions enables the novel to investigate the relationship between one's experience of life and one's interpretation of the mystical events of Christian texts. 2010-10-19 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282167934 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282167934 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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