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'Nothing New Under the Sun': Ecclesiastes and the Twentieth-Century-US-Literary Imagination

Faulstick, Dustin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1395835911

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
This dissertation examines the influence of Ecclesiastes on the fiction of prominent US authors including Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway. While critics from J. Hillis Miller to Carol J. Singley have addressed Ecclesiastes' presence in these texts, this project argues that Ecclesiastes provided a nearly inevitable allusive choice for turn-of-the-twentieth-century US writers. The biblical book anticipates scientific and philosophical developments of the era and shares foundational modern ideas on nature's indifference, the value of a realistic presentation of life, and a concern over life's meaninglessness. The project requires scholars to rethink the role of religious allusion in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts by unearthing a fairly comprehensive religious engagement in a literary period often thought antithetical to religion.
Paul C. Jones (Committee Chair)
Carey Snyder (Committee Member)
Amritjit Singh (Committee Member)
Cory Crawford (Committee Member)
340 p.
American Literature; Biblical Studies
Ecclesiastes; US Literature; twentieth century; Henry James; Edith Wharton; Ernest Hemingway

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  • Faulstick, D. (2014). 'Nothing New Under the Sun': Ecclesiastes and the Twentieth-Century-US-Literary Imagination [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1395835911

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Faulstick, Dustin. 'Nothing New Under the Sun': Ecclesiastes and the Twentieth-Century-US-Literary Imagination. 2014. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1395835911.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Faulstick, Dustin. "'Nothing New Under the Sun': Ecclesiastes and the Twentieth-Century-US-Literary Imagination." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1395835911

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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