Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780813365664
Publisert
2001-11-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Westview Press Inc
Vekt
281 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
196
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Alan Jacobs is professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. He is the author of What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry, A Visit to Vanity Fair and Other Moral Essays, and many essays of literary and cultural criticism. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and Theological Horizons. With his wife and son, he lives in Wheaton, Illinois.
If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the "law of love"—the twofold love of God and one's neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Through theological reflection interspersed with readings of literary texts (Shakespeare and Cervantes, Nabokov and Nicholson Baker, George Eliot and W. H. Auden and Dickens), Jacobs pursues an elusive quarry: the charitable reader.
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Through theological reflection interspersed with readings of literary texts, this book provides an elusive quarry—the charitable reader. It is a meaty meditation on absolutely central issues in serious reading, and its specific examples give a sufficient guide and impetus to a willing reader.
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Prelude -- Contexts and Obstacles -- The Illuminati -- Love and Knowledge -- Transfer of Charisma -- Love and the Suspicious Spirit -- Quixotic Reading -- Kenosis -- Two Charitable Readers -- Justice -- Postlude
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780813365664
Publisert
2001-11-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Westview Press Inc
Vekt
281 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
196
Forfatter