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Literature and Theology 2003 17(2):127-140; doi:10.1093/litthe/17.2.127
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Hugh Hood's The New Age/Le Nouveau Siècle: A Contemporary Divine Comedy

Barbara Pell1

1 Trinity Western University, Langley, BC V2Y 1Y1, Canada pell{at}twu.ca

Hugh Hood's twelve-volume epic, The New Age/Le nouveau siècle (1975–2000), is ‘the most ambitious literary undertaking to date in English-speaking Canada’, but most Canadian critics have ignored or rejected it because their contemporary narrative expectations are antithetical to Hood's genre, Christian moral allegory. I argue that only through a close-reading of this series within a theological/tropological framework can one appreciate the tremendous accomplishment of this uniquely Canadian religious epic and, therefore, make the considerable effort to understand it.


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