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This book shows that there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

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Petrolle is certainly both extremely well informed about allegory, and enormously skillful in demonstrating its existence ... An addition to the growing body of work on religion and genre is most welcome, especially one that takes its relation to postmodernism as seriously as this study does. - Literature and Theology Petrolle looks at religion and postmodern culture, the persistence in Western culture of allegory as genre and mode, and, using critically underrepresented forms of cultural production, brings these topics together with grace and intelligence. - Thomas L. Long, author of AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic

""Petrolle is certainly both extremely well informed about allegory, and enormously skillful in demonstrating its existence ... An addition to the growing body of work on religion and genre is most welcome, especially one that takes its relation to postmodernism as seriously as this study does."" - Literature and Theology ""Petrolle looks at religion and postmodern culture, the persistence in Western culture of allegory as genre and mode, and, using critically underrepresented forms of cultural production, brings these topics together with grace and intelligence."" - Thomas L. Long, author of AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic

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Jean Ellen Petrolle is Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago and the coeditor (with Virginia Wexman) of Women and Experimental Filmmaking.

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