TY - BOOK AU - Betty,Louis TI - Without God: Michel Houellebecq and materialist horror SN - 9780271078090 AV - PQ2668 .W584 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - University Park, Pennsylvania PB - The Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Houellebecq, Michel KW - Religion in literature KW - Materialism in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction : the Houellebecquian worldview --; Materialism and secularism --; The future of religion --; Religion and utopia --; Materialist horror --; Liberalism is God and the West is its prophet; 2; b N2 - "Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq's work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity"--Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1250337&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -