God Behind the Screen

Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-33904-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres, written by authors such as Aldous Huxley, Jane Austin, Sinclair Lewis, and Steven King, who are both fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrijasevic, Janko

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I

1 The Levels of Personality – Corpus et Animam

2 Generally on Religion

PART II

3 The Constant Seeker: Larry Darrell and Mature Religiosity

4 The Slow-Witted Mystic: Mrs. Dempster and Fool-Saintly Religiosity

PART III

5 Hustling Man of the Cloth: Elmer Gantry and Narcissistic Religiosity

6 A Demon Next to an Angel: Father Joseph and Masochistic Religiosity

7 Preacher of the Poisonwood Bible: Nathan Price and Antisocial Religiosity

8 The Flamboyant Depressive: Mrs. Winterson and Paranoid Religiosity

9 Case Studies of Minor Characters

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Janko Andrijasevic is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Montenegro. His areas of interest include Aldous Huxley, medical humanities, spirituality and psychology in literature. He has published a monograph on religion in Aldous Huxley's work, as well as two short novels, all in Serbo-Croatian.