SENIOR Faculty Fellow 1999-2000
Wesley Kort (Religious Studies)
Duke University
Religion and the Language of Place
and Space in Modern English Fiction
This is a study of the language of place and space in modern English
fiction and the relation of that language both to religious belief
and to the changing nature of places and of attitudes or orientations
to places from the closing decades of the nineteenth century until
the closing decades of the twentieth. The project will follow the
lead provided by works of narrative fiction to analyze and evaluate
the consequences that places hold for the moral and spiritual well-being
of people and to project the kinds of consequences for the construction
of or understanding of place in human life that arise from religious
belief.
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