{"product_id":"approaching-silence-new-perspectives-on-shusaku-endos-classic-novel-9781623569839","title":"Approaching Silence: New Perspectives on Shusaku Endo's Classic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eShusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists, often described as \"Japan's Graham Greene,\" and \u003ci\u003eSilence \u003c\/i\u003eis considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eApproaching Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the complexities of discipleship and martyrdom; the face of Christ; and, the bodhisattva ideal as well as the nature of suffering. It also frames \u003ci\u003eSilence\u003c\/i\u003e through a wider lens, comparing it to Endo's other works as well as to the fiction of other authors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eApproaching Silence\u003c\/i\u003e promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes an Afterword by Martin Scorsese on adapting \u003ci\u003eSilence \u003c\/i\u003efor the screen as well as the full text of Steven Dietz's play adaptation of Endo's novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark W. Dennis\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at Texas Christian University, USA.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDarren J. N. Middleton is Professor of Literature and Theology at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He is the author of three books, including \u003ci\u003eTheology after Reading: Christian Imagination and the Power of Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), as well as four edited volumes on religion, literature and film.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856127987986,"sku":"9781623569839","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0393f94-3d0f-4fed-a818-19e48720e32c.jpg?v=1737496509","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/approaching-silence-new-perspectives-on-shusaku-endos-classic-novel-9781623569839","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}