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Fundamentalism and Literature.(Book review)
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Philological Quarterly
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January 1, 2006
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Fundamentalism and Literature. Edited by Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. vi + 220. $65 cloth.
This is a book redeemed by several excellent chapters. Redemption is made necessary because there is so little editorial input that the reader is left without a properly developed sense of initial orientation or subsequent progression. As a result, Fundamentalism and Literature has a flavor more characteristic of conference proceedings, or a journal's special issue, than of a successfully realized book. In order to establish the sense of overall coherence that makes reading something cover to cover such an enriching ...
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