Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature by Lockerd, Martin

Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781666786026)

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Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature by Lockerd, Martin

Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature

$42.00
Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature by Lockerd, Martin

Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
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Suicide plays a major role in modern literature and the philosophy that informs it. For Catholic authors, who have always understood the act within the framework of sin and redemption, it carries a special significance. In the last century, Catholic literary figures as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien and Walker Percy, Robert Hugh Benson and Muriel Spark, J.K. Huysmans and Graham Greene, wrestled with the problem of suicide in their work and produced art that confronts the despair so common in modern existence. As suicide rates continue to increase across the developed world and entire nations embrace and expand legalized assisted suicide, this book draws readers back to Catholic literature as a resource for understanding and perhaps even resisting this trend.

Author: Martin Lockerd
ISBN-10: 1666786020
ISBN-13: 9781666786026
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2025
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By Martin Lockerd
By Martin Lockerd
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Martin Lockerd is an associate professor and division dean at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. He joined UST in 2022 to help guide a renewed core curriculum in the Catholic liberal arts tradition. Dr. Lockerd received his BA from the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and his PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin. His scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, the Yeats/Eliot Review, Mythlore, and Logos. His first monograph, Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism, was published in 2020.

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