The Resource The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage, Paul Elie
The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage, Paul Elie
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The item The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage, Paul Elie represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- "In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing - in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story - a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us." "Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the foundress of the Catholic Worker movement and its penny newspaper in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-centered" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them - the School of the Holy Ghost - and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common."" "A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story, and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Paul Elie tells these four writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-posessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms their readers could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change - to save - our lives."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 554 p, [16] p. of plates.
- Contents
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- Counterparts
- Convergences
- Pilgrimage or crusade?
- The holiness of the ordinary
- The life you save may be your own
- Prologue : on pilgrimage
- Experience
- The downward path
- Seeking the real
- Another world
- Independents
- The school of the Holy Ghost
- The stranger
- Isbn
- 9780374256807
- Label
- The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage
- Title
- The life you save may be your own
- Title remainder
- an American pilgrimage
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Elie
- Subject
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- Catholics -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Catholics in literature
- Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
- American literature -- Catholic authors | History and criticism
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Catholics -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing - in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story - a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us." "Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the foundress of the Catholic Worker movement and its penny newspaper in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-centered" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them - the School of the Holy Ghost - and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common."" "A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story, and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Paul Elie tells these four writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-posessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms their readers could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change - to save - our lives."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Elie, Paul
- Illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- Christianity and literature
- American literature
- Authors, American
- Catholics
- Catholics
- Catholics in literature
- Merton, Thomas
- Day, Dorothy
- Percy, Walker
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Label
- The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage, Paul Elie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Counterparts
- Convergences
- Pilgrimage or crusade?
- The holiness of the ordinary
- The life you save may be your own
- Prologue : on pilgrimage
- Experience
- The downward path
- Seeking the real
- Another world
- Independents
- The school of the Holy Ghost
- The stranger
- Control code
- l82002192522
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 554 p, [16] p. of plates.
- Isbn
- 9780374256807
- Lccn
- 2002192522
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage, Paul Elie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Counterparts
- Convergences
- Pilgrimage or crusade?
- The holiness of the ordinary
- The life you save may be your own
- Prologue : on pilgrimage
- Experience
- The downward path
- Seeking the real
- Another world
- Independents
- The school of the Holy Ghost
- The stranger
- Control code
- l82002192522
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 554 p, [16] p. of plates.
- Isbn
- 9780374256807
- Lccn
- 2002192522
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Catholics -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Catholics in literature
- Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
- American literature -- Catholic authors | History and criticism
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Catholics -- United States -- Biography
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