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- catalog abstract ""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. 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.".
- catalog contributor b12265137.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 161 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "006251752X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0062517538 (paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "820.9/382 21".
- catalog subject "Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936. Man who was Thursday.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature United States.".
- catalog subject "English literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Faith in literature.".
- catalog subject "Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR408.C47 B84 2001".
- catalog subject "Religion in literature.".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.".
- catalog subject "Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.".
- catalog title "Speak what we feel (not what we ought to say) : reflections on literature and faith / Frederick Buechner.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".