Writing after the wreck: Post -modern ethics and spirituality in fictions by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison, E. L. Doctorow, and Leslie Marmon Silko

This dissertation explores the ways in which four post-modern American novelists continue to use their fiction to address questions regarding the nature and place of ethics and spirituality in contemporary America in spite of the supposed "death" of history, man, and God. The four novels e...

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Main Author: Griffith, Johnny Ray
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2006
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3216950