The Question of Justice in the Novel of Consciousness

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" The Question of Justice in the Novel of Consciousness "
Michael Vander Weele

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081954
Doc. No	:	LA125583
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02401004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Michael Vander Weele
Title & Author	:	The Question of Justice in the Novel of Consciousness [Article]\ Michael Vander Weele
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	24/1-2
Page No	:	148–173
Abstract	:	Marilynne Robinson’s achievement in the third novel of the Iowa trilogy can be seen more clearly if measured against Erich Auerbach’s ambivalence about the novel of consciousness. Using Auerbach’s final chapter of Mimesis, on Virginia Woolf, as the horizon for Robinson’s work clarifies two points: Robinson’s work should be viewed within a novel-of-consciousness tradition that is as much European as American; and Robinson’s religious interests turn that tradition toward a more anthropological concern with the complexity of consciousness framed by the concern for justice. While Nicholas Damas’s recent essay in The Atlantic, “The New Fiction of Solitude” (April 2016), claimed that much new fiction “imagines teaching us how to be separate” and Walter Benjamin already wrote at mid-century that “the ability to exchange experiences” disappeared sometime after World War I, in Lila it is as if Marilynne Robinson set out to show both the difficulty and the possibilities of such exchange.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Auerbach
Descriptor	:	Calvin
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	exchange
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	justice
Descriptor	:	Novel of Consciousness
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Robinson
Descriptor	:	Woolf
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02401004‬