Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury a religious novel? Faulkner himself was a somewhat cynical agnostic, and few readers would find much spiritual comfort in his dour chronicle of the Compson family. But to Professor Nathan Scott of the University of Chicago Divinity School, the answer is clearly yes. Behind the novel's secular fa?ade, he argues, lies a poetic expression of what theology calls kairos-the divine gift of time span in which man exists on earth...
...toughest and most developed program is at Chicago, which currently offers 17 courses, ranging from a seminar on Moby Dick to a study of the novel and urban imagination dealing with Dickens, Balzac and Fitzgerald. Along the way to their Ph.D.s, students must master, among other things, five fields of religious study, including the Bible and the history of Christianity, the position of one major modern theologian or the entire body of one major writer's work, and one classic of criticism-plus two foreign languages, usually German and French. The most harrowing obstacle is an oral examination during...
Underlying all literature and theology programs is the premise that insofar as a novel or play says anything significant about life, it has a religious meaning-which the theologian has as much right to explicate as a critic. Says Chicago's Scott: "The great canon of modern literature is a repository of an enormously profound insight into what it means to be human. It is through the study of literature that some of the most genuine and revealing points of contact between religion and art are likely to be found in our time...
Truman Capote called it a "nonfiction novel," a dubious tag designed to draw attention to the undeniable fact that he had used the novelist's craft to render reality. Through painstaking accretion of minutiae, In Cold Blood harrowingly anatomized a multiple murder and in the process brought literary life to six dead people. They were the four members of the prosperous Clutter family of Holcomb, Kans., and their killers. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who were executed in 1965. Although the book was flawed by a seeming excess of sympathy for the criminals, it had the sweeping force...
Viewers are also likely not to feel anything-except numbness-after ingesting this filmed version of Jacqueline Susann's wide screen novel, loose ly based on the troubles of some semi-recognizable showbiz sickies. Among them are a platinum blonde (Sharon Tate) who makes nudies to pay for her husband's stay in a sanatorium; a young singer (Patty Duke) who later turns to bedding down with strangers; and a brassy voiced Broadway zircon in the rough (Susan Hayward...