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This life, this world : new essays on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Gilead and Home /

This volume explores the author's award-winning novels while also engaging her non-fiction. As the first book devoted entirely to Robinson and to her diverse contributions to literature and scholarship. This Life, This World familiarizes readers with the major currents in her thought and moves...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stevens, Jason W., 1975- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Dialogue (Brill Rodopi (Firm)) ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jason Stevens
  • Housekeeping, Wordsworth, and the sublimity of unsurrendered wilderness / Jonathan Arac and Susan Balée
  • At home with transience: reconfiguring female characters of the American West in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Corina Crisu
  • Religion, literature, and the environment in the work of Marilynne Robinson / George B. Handley
  • Becoming a creature of artful existence: theological perception and ecological design in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead / Chad Wriglesworth
  • Sentimentality and grace: Marilynne Robinson and nineteenth-century prodigal son narratives / Rachel B. Griffs
  • In the face of mystery: Soteriological symbolism in Gilead and Home / Mark S.M. Scott
  • Marilynne Robinson's merging of medicine and literature: therapeutic journaling as Balm in Gilead / Janella Moy
  • The privilege of loneliness, the kindness of home: "felt experience" in the writing of Marilynne Robinson / Carolyn Allen
  • "Jack Boughton has a wife and a child": generative blackness in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home / Yumi Pak
  • Robinson and Updike: houses, domesticity, and the numinous quotidian / James Schiff
  • An interview with Marilynne Robinson / Jason Stevens.