Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson

Framing Marilynne Robinson''s fiction within the dynamics of everyday life, this study highlights the tensions of form and content that haunt moments of transcendence in her work. Robinson''s novels, it argues, construct a world that is mimetic as well as symbolic and revelatory. Although the heightened apprehension of the quotidian in Robinson''s novels often registers powerfully and beautifully ...