Book · October 22, 2020
This book looks at modern American fiction in its own Italianate coloration: the interplay of sex (the red of passion), violence (the black of violence), and sanctity (the gold of redemption). Its purpose is to involve the reader in the mythopoetics of Am ...
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Chapter · 2011
The Scarlet Letter we know all too well is The Scarlet Letter of the American classroom–in the high schools especially (all those AP exams) but by no means only there–and it is this hoary Scarlet Letter that illustrates almost to a T the Protestant underst ...
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Internet Publication · June 2010
University of Chicago Forum on Religion and Culture dedicated to Amy Hungerford's "The Literary Practice of Belief." In his contribution, Ferraro pays testimony to Hungerford's achievement by conceptualizing the reversal of her key concept, from "The Lite ...
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Journal ArticleVIA · 2009
A love-and-irony accounting of the strange figurations of gender–focused on what women do with their mouths esp. in Hollywood and Vegas–in the original novel version of _The Godfather_, as experienced and interpreted in 20 years of teaching the novel to gr ...
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Chapter · 2008
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"Boys to Men" examines the redemptive force of street Catholicism–the salvific masculinity of Irish American violence, courage, and love–as enacted in the interplay between the social-work priest (Pat O’Brien) and his boyhood buddy (James Cagney) turned no ...
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Book · May 2005
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Feeling Italian: the Art of Ethnicity in America (NYU, December ’04?) explores the Italian Catholic aesthetic seduction of the United States– from the once-infamous trials of murderess Maria Barbella and the eerily prescient city paintings of Josep ...
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Book · 1997
Contributions by Patrick Allitt, Paul Crowley, James T. Fisher, Paul Giles, Mary Gordon, Stanley Hauerwas, Frank Lentricchia, Robert A. Orsi, Camille Paglia, David Plante, Richard Rodriguez, Kathy Rudy, Andrew Sullivan, and Mary Jo Weaver ...
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Book · 1997
Contributions by Patrick Allitt, Paul Crowley, James T. Fisher, Paul Giles, Mary Gordon, Stanley Hauerwas, Frank Lentricchia, Robert A. Orsi, Camille Paglia, David Plante, Richard Rodriguez, Kathy Rudy, Andrew Sullivan, and Mary Jo Weaver ...
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