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Article: The Writer and Religion.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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The Writer and Religion. Ed. by WILLIAM H. GASS and LORIN CUOCO. (International Writers Center Series) Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 2000. xiii + 157 pp. $19.95.
This volume has a more international scope than many books that might appear under the title 'The Writer and Religion'. It also has a surprising coherence. Edited by the directors of a centre at Washington University in St Louis, the book makes available the proceedings of a carefully planned conference held in 1994. It gathers papers by celebrity participants from India, South Africa, Ireland, and elsewhere, and prints transcripts of the ensuing discussions. Forty-odd ...