The Nature of Religion in Iain Banks’s Novels: The Wasp Factory and Consider Phlebas
The Nature of Religion in Iain Banks’s Novels: The Wasp Factory and Consider Phlebas
Author(s): Katarzyna FetlińskaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Iain Banks; The Wasp Factory; Consider Phlebas; religion
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to use cognitive approach in order to analyse the topic of religion in two novels by Iain Banks. I argue that in both The Wasp Factory and Consider Phlebas Banks presents divine thoughts as cognitively natural for humans, since, according to neuroscience, the propensity for religiosity is inborn and universal. Banks’s novels show that people have an innate need to fill space with agents, and cannot refrain from ascribing illusory purpose to the cruel chaos of the surrounding world.
Journal: ANGLICA - An International Journal of English Studies
- Issue Year: 24/2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 147-160
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English