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dc.contributor.authorTorchia, Darryl Anthony
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-05T18:24:43Z
dc.date.available2010-08-05T18:24:43Z
dc.date.issued1997-05
dc.identifier.citationTorchia, Darryl Anthony. Anthony Burgess and God, faith and evil, language and the ludic in the novels of a manichaean wordboy; A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Department of Religion, University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: University of Winnipeg, May 1997.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10680/135
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, a detailed study of religious and ethical themes in selected novels by the late British writer, Anthony Burgess, will be undertaken. I will demonstrate that his work contains a consistent ethical worldview, manifested both in the situations of crisis his protagonists face, and in his attitude towards the responsibility and duty of the professional writer. His emphasis on the importance of compassion, responsibility and humor in a world of moral dualism will be shown to be consistently present in a broad range of fictional genres and literary styles, ranging from dystopian speculative fiction to biographical novels. The thesis will be organized thematically to reflect his novels about four separate areas of concern: individual responses to human suffering, personal autonomy in the face of coercive institutions, the role of the artist in society, and the problem of faith in postconciliar Roman Catholicism. A diverse range of critics, in keeping with these various themes, will be consulted in order to give increased depth and relevance to this study. It is hoped that the conclusion will demonstrate that Burgess's work presents a coherent and consistent philosophy of moral decision making.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Winnipeg
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectAnthony Burgessen_US
dc.subjectReligionen_US
dc.subjectChristianityen_US
dc.titleAnthony Burgess and God, faith and evil, language and the ludic in the novels of a manichaean wordboyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts in Religion
dc.publisher.grantorUniversity of Manitoba
thesis.degree.disciplineReligion
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts in Religion
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Manitoba


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