TY - BOOK AU - Millet,Kitty AU - Figueira,Dorothy Matilda ED - International Comparative Literature Association. ED - Fault Lines of Modernity (Conference) TI - Fault lines of modernity: the fractures and repairs of religion, ethics, and literature SN - 9781501316654 U1 - 809 22 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Literature and morals KW - Congresses KW - Religion and literature KW - European literature KW - History and criticism N1 - Based on papers presented at the conferences, 2013 International Comparative Literature Association Congress (ICLA) held in Paris, and, the 2014 Fault Lines of Modernity conference, held at San Francisco State University; Introduction / Kitty Millet -- The transcendental and transcendence. Rewriting grand narratives as a supratemporal mystical competition: illustrations from Dante, Rabelais, Cervantes, Goethe, Proust, Mann, and Joyce / Gerald Gillespie -- "Clearer awareness of the "crisis": Erich Auerbach's radical relativism and the "rich tensions" of the historical imperative / Geoffrey Green -- Secularism and post-secularism / Wlad Godzich -- Literature. Redemptive readings between Maurice Blanchot and Franz Rosenzweig / Shawna Vesco -- "So what if you are big?": divisive identities and the ethics of pluralism in Indian literatures of devotion / Ipshita Chanda -- Alterity and the ethics of the novel in J.M. Coetzee's quasi-realism / Christopher Weinberger -- Religion. Asmodeus, the "eye of providence" and the ethics of seeing in nineteenth-century mystery fiction / Sara Hackenberg -- Modernism's religious rhetorics: or, what bothered Baudelaire / Hope Hodgkins -- Poetry and religion: approaches to Christian transcendence in late 20th-century poets / Stephanie Heimgartner -- Ethics. Instituting the other: ethical fault lines in readings and pedagogies of alterity / Dorothy Figueira -- Thinking God on the basis of ethics: Levinas, The Brothers Karamazov, and Dostoevsky's anti-semitism / Steven Shankman -- An ethics for missing persons / Kitty Millet ER -