Category: Essays, Criticism & Memoir

Literature and Theology

By: Wood, Ralph C.

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Abingdon Press : November 2008

Seller ID: 150436

ISBN-13: 9780687497409

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The phrase 'People of the Book' may be the best way to access Ralph Wood's most recent work. Used originally by Muslims to describe both Jews and Christians, the name calls attention to the story-borne essence of Christianity and the Christian call to center one's life 'around the singular Story of God's ordering and reordering of the world' (Wood). It makes perfect sense that a people sustained by story-the Gospel in particular-should produce stories of their own. Truth begets truth; and as St. Augustine observed, 'I must confess that I have learned many things I never knew before.just by wri...
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The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists

By: WOOD, RALPH C.

Price: $38.00

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press : September 1991

Seller ID: 211878

ISBN-13: 9780268007867

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Christianity is usually not viewed as a comedy. The theologian Ralph Wood proposes otherwise. Instead of the usual tragic vision presented (for example) by Reinhold Niebuhr, in which the gospel engages life realistically and grimly, Wood prefers the comic vision (comedy in terms of disparity of proportion, or a turning upside-down of expected categories) of Karl Barth. The joyful proclamation of the death and resurrection of Christ throughout Barth's theology, Wood contends, criticizes the folly of human presumption in a comic way. In contrast to his reputation, Barth is able to celebrate cult...
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Herbert Read: The Stream and the Source: The Stream and the Source

By: Woodcock, George

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Black Rose Books : July 2008

Seller ID: 174677

ISBN-13: 9781551643182

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

During his lifetime, Herbert Read (1893--1968) acquired a considerable international reputation. Poet and anarchist, novelist and biographer, critic of art, literature, and life, aesthetic philosopher and revolutionary theorist of education, Read was in a unique place as an interpreter of his time, for few writers have probed so deeply into the nature of the prevailing culture, and none brought together the insights of modern philosophers and critics, poets and artists, psychologists and social scientists, as Read did. Best known as an art critic, as a follower of the theories of Carl Jung, Re...
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Faithful Fictions: The Catholic Novel in British Literature

By: Woodman, Thomas

Price: $29.95

Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press : October 2022

Seller ID: 214910

ISBN-13: 9780813235646

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Prose of the Romantic Period

By: WOODRING, CARL R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : November 1961

Seller ID: 20071112127656

ISBN: 991120705

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Good

Used - good. Cover has light stain, pen mark, preface page and first page of contents detached from spine, otherwise solid and clean. 600 pp.
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Captain's Death Bed & Other Essays: And Other Essays

By: Woolf, Virgina

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : March 1973

Seller ID: 160912

ISBN-13: 9780156153959

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading (Katherine Anne Porter). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

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Granite and Rainbow: Essays (Harvest Book ; Hb 318)

By: Woolf, Virgina

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : October 1975

Seller ID: 160910

ISBN-13: 9780156364751

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A posthumous collection of twenty-five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography. These are aristocrats among essays...witty, beautifully mannered and mellow (Rumer Godden, New York Herald Tribune). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

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A Room of One's Own

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : December 1989

Seller ID: 218903

ISBN-13: 9780156787338

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

A few soil marks on lower cover, a crisp unmarked copy.
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On Fiction (On Series)

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Hesperus Press : December 2011

Seller ID: 151315

ISBN-13: 9781843916185

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The only available edition of a collection of essays celebrating the ever-popular pastime of reading and storytelling, from one of the 20th century's greatest literary figures"Here, then, very briefly and with inevitable simplification, an attempt is made to show the mind at work upon a shelf full of novels and to watch it as it chooses and rejects, making itself a dwelling-place in accordance with its own appetites. Of these appetites, perhaps, the simplest is the desire to believe wholly and entirely in something which is fictitious." Her readings sensitive, her prose style elegant, authorit...
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Three Guineas

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Harvest Books : May 1963

Seller ID: 131831

ISBN-13: 9780156901772

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

"Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes." Setting out to answer the question "How are we to prevent war?" Virginia Woolf argues that the inequalities between women and men must first be addressed. Framing her arguments in the form of a letter, Woolf wittily ponders to whom--among the many who have requested it--she will donate a guinea. As she works out her reasons for which causes she will support, Woolf articulates a vision of peace and political culture as radical now as it was when first published on the eve of the Second World War. A founding text of cultural theo...
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The Walls Between Us: Essays In Search of Truth

By: Workshops, Juncture

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Independently published : October 2018

Seller ID: 209576

ISBN-13: 9781726844185

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In an era of increasing divisions and divisiveness, Juncture Workshops sponsored a literary contest seeking the best essays on the complexities of walls, both literal and metaphoric. Writers from around the world responded. The resulting book contains sixteen full-length essays on topics ranging from deep yearning and personal loss to kiwi birds and urban neighborhoods. Nearly two dozen brief excerpts further tell the story of geopolitical and intimate schisms. Curated and introduced by memoirist and memoir teacher Beth Kephart, The Walls Between Us: Essays In Search of Truth offers profound i...
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For All The Saints? : Remembering The Christian Departed

By: WRIGHT, N. T.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Morehouse Pub Co : 2004-09-01

Seller ID: 195140

ISBN-13: 9780819221339

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

We have been drifting into a muddle and a mess, putting together bits and pieces of traditions, ideas and practices in the hope that they will make sense. They don't. There may be times when a typical Anglican fudge is a pleasant, chewy sort of thing, but this isn't one of them. It's time to think and speak clearly and act decisively. With these robust words Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, throws down a challenge to current liturgy and practice surrounding All Saints' and All Souls' Days, and sets out to clarify our thinking about what happens to people after they die. Heaven, Hell, and Purgato...
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The Image of the Hero (Selected Papers, 2004 conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery)

By: Wright, Will, Kaplan, Steven

Price: $18.00

Publisher: : December 2003

Seller ID: 132019

ISBN: B01MTGFFDJ

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Covers lightly worn and water stained, slight crease in spine, very solid and clean.
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About Town: The New Yorker and The World It Made (First Edition)

By: Yagoda, Ben

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Scribner : February 2000

Seller ID: 167743

ISBN-13: 9780684816050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Published to coincide with The New Yorker's 75th anniversary, this major work of cultural history draws on never-before-seen archives and offers a comprehensive look at this revered magazine's fascinating evolution. 40 cartoons. 40 photos.
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