Literature and Ecotheology : From Chaos to Cosmos (Hardcover)

Part I: Why Ecocriticism Needs to Get Religion? 1. Literature and Ecotheology? 2. Two. Literature as Ecotheology? 3. Literature as Theodicy? Part II: Literary Theodicy in Four Contemporary Examples? 4. The Duality of Cosmos in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek? 5. The Tale as Cosmos in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing 6. Imagination as Cosmos in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping 7. Syncretism as Cosmos in David James Duncan’s Sun House