American Catholic literature: Difference between revisions
m copy edit with General fixes; url trimming of identifying info perWP:LINKSTOAVOID and Citation Style, replaced: n’t → n't |
Manannan67 (talk | contribs) Attribution: content in this article was copied from J. F. Powers on September 8, 2019. Please see the history of that page for full attribution |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Essay|date=May 2011}} |
|||
{{More citations needed|date=May 2011}} |
{{More citations needed|date=May 2011}} |
||
'''American Catholic literature''' emerged in the early 1900s as its own genre.<ref name="Kellogg, Jean Defrees 1970">Kellogg, Jean Defrees. "Catholicism in the United States." The Vital Tradition: the Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence. [Chicago]: Loyola UP, 1970. 154-55. Print.</ref> Catholic literature is not exclusively literature written by Catholic authors or about Catholic things, but rather Catholic literature is "defined [...] by a particular Catholic perspective applied to its subject matter."<ref name="Reichardt, Mary R 2004">Reichardt, Mary R. Introduction. Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature. Vol. 1. Westport, Conn. u.a.: Greenwood, 2004. Print.</ref> |
'''American Catholic literature''' emerged in the early 1900s as its own genre.<ref name="Kellogg, Jean Defrees 1970">Kellogg, Jean Defrees. "Catholicism in the United States." The Vital Tradition: the Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence. [Chicago]: Loyola UP, 1970. 154-55. Print.</ref> Catholic literature is not exclusively literature written by Catholic authors or about Catholic things, but rather Catholic literature is "defined [...] by a particular Catholic perspective applied to its subject matter."<ref name="Reichardt, Mary R 2004">Reichardt, Mary R. Introduction. Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature. Vol. 1. Westport, Conn. u.a.: Greenwood, 2004. Print.</ref> |
||
| Line 7: | Line 8: | ||
==Catholic novels in the United States== |
==Catholic novels in the United States== |
||
In |
In 1927, there was a growing curiosity toward the [[Catholic culture]] among the faith community. As Catholic literature was more readily accepted, more and more pieces of literature with Catholic themes and subjects were published.<ref>Kellogg, Jean Defrees. "Catholicism in the United States." The Vital Tradition: the Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence. [Chicago]: Loyola UP, 1970. 165-66. Print.</ref> |
||
[[J. F. Powers]] was an American novelist and short-story writer whose work has long been admired for its gentle satire and its ability to recreate with a few words the insular but gradually changing world of post-World War II American Catholicism. He is known for having captured a "clerical idiom" in postwar North America. His story "The Valiant Woman" received the O. Henry Award in 1947. His first novel was Morte d'Urban (1962), which won the 1963 National Book Award for Fiction<ref name="archives.lib.siu.edu">{{cite web|url=http://archives.lib.siu.edu/index.php?p=creators/creator&id=329|title=Powers, J. F. (James Farl), (1917-) |
|||
|publisher= Southern Illinois University Special Collections Research Center|accessdate= October 14, 2012}}</ref> [[Evelyn Waugh]], [[Walker Percy]], and [[Frank O'Connor]] admired his work.<ref>Mel Gussow (June 17, 1999). [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/17/arts/j-f-powers-81-dies-wrote-about-priests.html "J. F. Powers, 81, Dies; Wrote About Priests"]. ''The New York Times''</ref> |
|||
==References== |
==References== |
||
Revision as of 22:36, 8 September 2019
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (May 2011) |
American Catholic literature emerged in the early 1900s as its own genre.[1] Catholic literature is not exclusively literature written by Catholic authors or about Catholic things, but rather Catholic literature is "defined [...] by a particular Catholic perspective applied to its subject matter."[2]
Beginning of Catholic publications
In the years after the American Civil War, there was a young priest by the name of Fr. Isaac Hecker. A convert to the Catholic faith, he went around giving lectures with the aim of evangelizing the Catholic faith to both Catholics and non-Catholics alike. In 1865, Fr. Heckler started a periodical which he named the Catholic World and in 1867 he founded the Catholic Publication Society to help publish and distribute them on a national level.[1]
Catholic novels in the United States
In 1927, there was a growing curiosity toward the Catholic culture among the faith community. As Catholic literature was more readily accepted, more and more pieces of literature with Catholic themes and subjects were published.[3]
J. F. Powers was an American novelist and short-story writer whose work has long been admired for its gentle satire and its ability to recreate with a few words the insular but gradually changing world of post-World War II American Catholicism. He is known for having captured a "clerical idiom" in postwar North America. His story "The Valiant Woman" received the O. Henry Award in 1947. His first novel was Morte d'Urban (1962), which won the 1963 National Book Award for Fiction[4] Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy, and Frank O'Connor admired his work.[5]
References
- ^ a b Kellogg, Jean Defrees. "Catholicism in the United States." The Vital Tradition: the Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence. [Chicago]: Loyola UP, 1970. 154-55. Print.
- ^ Reichardt, Mary R. Introduction. Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature. Vol. 1. Westport, Conn. u.a.: Greenwood, 2004. Print.
- ^ Kellogg, Jean Defrees. "Catholicism in the United States." The Vital Tradition: the Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence. [Chicago]: Loyola UP, 1970. 165-66. Print.
- ^ "Powers, J. F. (James Farl), (1917-)". Southern Illinois University Special Collections Research Center. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
- ^ Mel Gussow (June 17, 1999). "J. F. Powers, 81, Dies; Wrote About Priests". The New York Times
 | This article about a literary genre is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This Catholic Church–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |