Playful Wisdom
Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead
Playful Wisdom examines how Henry David Thoreau's thinking about religious play created a theological legacy in American literature-one that includes Emily Dickinson, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Merton, Annie Dillard, and Marilynne Robinson. Although these writers differ in many ways, they share with Thoreau an improvisational looseness or mobility in their thinking about the sacred, a sense that religious experience unsettles fixed belief and alters the very shape of the perceiving self. From this perspective, Robert Leigh Davis argues, unswerving orthodoxy is not as crucial to a life of faith as a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constan…
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- ISBN: 978-1-79362-628-8
- EAN: 9781793626288
- Produktnummer: 34546680
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.9 cm 548 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 548
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Playful Wisdom
Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead
Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead
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