"In this compelling book, the great contemporary spiritual writer and novelist Frederick Buechner plumbs the mysteries and truths behind the literature that speaks to him most powerfully. Buechner presents the four authors who have been his greatest influences, focusing on the question that has emerged at the center of his life - how to face mortality, failure, and tragedy. Through sensitive biographical exploration and close reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins's sublime later sonnets, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, and William Shakespeare's most powerful play, King Lear, Buechner invites readers to discover the deeper joy and purpose of reading.
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He shows how these writers - by putting their passion and pain into their work - have enabled him to bear the weight of his own grief and sadness by "speaking out from under the burden of theirs."Buechner's ruminations on their writings leads to the revelation that God accepts us for doing the best we can, even if our lives are in some ways a failure; even if we have lived a life haunted by tragedy, as Buechner's has been haunted by his father's suicide."--Jacket.
نام شخص به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Chesterton, G. K., (Gilbert Keith),1874-1936., Man who was Thursday.
موضوع مستند نشده
Hopkins, Gerard Manley,1844-1889-- Criticism and interpretation.
موضوع مستند نشده
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., King Lear.
موضوع مستند نشده
Twain, Mark,1835-1910., Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
موضوع مستند نشده
Twain, Mark,1835-1910., Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
موضوع مستند نشده
Hopkins, Gerard Manley,1844-1889
عنوان به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, Mark)
موضوع مستند نشده
King Lear (Shakespeare, William)
موضوع مستند نشده
Man who was Thursday (Chesterton, G. K.)
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Christianity and literature-- Great Britain-- History.
موضوع مستند نشده
Christianity and literature-- United States.
موضوع مستند نشده
English literature-- History and criticism.
موضوع مستند نشده
Faith in literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
Religion in literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
Christianity and literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
English literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
Faith in literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
Religion in literature.
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Great Britain.
موضوع مستند نشده
United States.
بدون عنوان
7
بدون عنوان
7
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
820
.
9/382
ويراست
21
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PR408
.
C47
نشانه اثر
B84
2001
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )