God loves you, go suffer: The gospel of Woe according to the Irish in Frank McCourts Angela's Ashes

Date of Publication

2002

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Abstract/Summary

This thesis is an analysis of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and how religion influences the Irish Catholics' perceptions of suffering. It is also a study of McCourt's narration based on Giles B. Gunn's theory on literature and its relation to religion, mainly the two ways of viewing literature in Theological Criticism based on modern Semantic Theory and Amos N. Wilder's Uses of a Theological Criticism, which focuses on rhetoric.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU11139

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

64 leaves

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