{"product_id":"the-sense-of-the-sacred-in-the-early-novels-of-quebec","title":"The Sense of the Sacred in the Early Novels of Quebec","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuebec’s early novels are full of sacred themes and motifs – devotional objects and practices, parables and scripture, priests and nuns, transcendence, divinity, and eternity. Yet the critical gaze of the past fifty years has seldom engaged the idea of the sacred in a sustained way. Indeed the presence of the sacred has alienated modern and postmodern readers who ignore or downplay its significance, leading to misguided assessments of these works as mediocre and even unreadable for contemporary audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sense of the Sacred in the Early Novels of Quebec\u003c\/em\u003e reexamines seven classic novels at the foundations of Quebec’s national literature: Patrice Lacombe’s \u003cem\u003eLa Terre paternelle\u003c\/em\u003e (1846), P.-J.-O. Chauveau’s \u003cem\u003eCharles Gurin\u003c\/em\u003e (1853), Antoine Grin-Lajoie’s \u003cem\u003eJean Rivard\u003c\/em\u003e (1874), Philippe Aubert de Gasp’s \u003cem\u003eLes Anciens Canadiens\u003c\/em\u003e (1863), Laure Conan’s \u003cem\u003eAngline de Montbrun\u003c\/em\u003e (1884), Louis Hmon’s \u003cem\u003eMaria Chapdelaine\u003c\/em\u003e (1916), and Flix-Antoine Savard’s \u003cem\u003eMenaud, matre-draveur\u003c\/em\u003e (1937). Through chapters that focus on sacred themes, character analysis, narrative temporalities, and the hermeneutics of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone demonstrates that these novels are more nuanced and innovative than their reputation has allowed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*The Sense of the Sacred in the Early Novels of Quebec *reintroduces readers to classic works of French-Canadian literature that ironically and provocatively cast their quarrel with modernity in that essentially modern form: the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46227420938450,"sku":"9780228022459","price":141.3,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46227420971218,"sku":"f6f3acde-a59c-3de3-9283-ddd78b5cd116","price":87.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_a0f78d24-ecd1-4d9d-a572-8933201ce1c3.jpg?v=1763227027","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/the-sense-of-the-sacred-in-the-early-novels-of-quebec","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}