Haunted by Christ : modern writers and the struggle for faith / Richard Harries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harries, Richard, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faith.

Authors--Religious life.

Authors.

Religion and literature.

Religion in literature.

Christianity and literature.

Christianity in literature.

Religious life.

Physical Description:

xvi, 233 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2018.

Summary:

W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, William Golding, Elizabeth Jennings, C.S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Stevie Smith. These are among some of the great poets and novelists whose struggles with faith finds expression in their works, and whose works have helped countless readers to appreciate the different forms that faith can take in different times and places. Richard Harries considers the work of twenty of these writers, painting vivid pictures of their lives and times, and providing us with numerous critically sympathetic insights into the spiritual dimension of their writings.

Contents:

Fyodor Dostoevsky: through a furnace of doubt

Emily Dickinson: a smouldering volgano

Gerard Manley Hopkins: 'Away grief's gasping'

Edward Thomas: the elusive call

T. S. Eliot : out of hell

Stevie Smith: a jaunty desperation

Samuel Beckett: secular mystic

W. H. Auden: 'Bless what there is for being'

William Golding: universal pessimist, cosmic optimist

R. S. Thomas: presence in absence

Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown: light from the Orkneys

Elizabeth Jennings: poet of pain and praise

Grace in failure: four Catholic novelists: Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo and Evelyn Waugh

C. S. Lewis and Philip Pullman: competing myths

Marilynn Robinson: Christian contrarian

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780281079339

0281079331

OCLC:

1029205350