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 DC Public Library System.
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- Summary
- This volume chronicles the influences, writing struggles and religious imagination at work in four American writers -- Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day. All of them were Catholic, and all of them flourished over the roughly 30- or 40-year period from the 1930's through the 60's that is sometimes called ''the Catholic moment'' in America. Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Day was the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; O'Connor was a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Percy was a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. The author draws comparisons between their backgrounds, temperaments, circumstances and words, he reveals "four like-minded writers" whose work took the shape of a movement. Though they produced no manifesto they were unified as pilgrims moving toward the same destination while taking different paths
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 554 pages
- 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
- 9780374529215
- 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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- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Catholic authors
- American literature -- Catholic authors | History and criticism
- Authors, American
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Catholics
- Catholics -- Intellectual life
- Catholics -- United States -- Biography
- Catholics -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Catholics in literature
- Catholics in literature
- Christianity and literature
- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
- History
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
- O'Connor, Flannery
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
- United States
- Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- American literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This volume chronicles the influences, writing struggles and religious imagination at work in four American writers -- Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day. All of them were Catholic, and all of them flourished over the roughly 30- or 40-year period from the 1930's through the 60's that is sometimes called ''the Catholic moment'' in America. Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Day was the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; O'Connor was a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Percy was a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. The author draws comparisons between their backgrounds, temperaments, circumstances and words, he reveals "four like-minded writers" whose work took the shape of a movement. Though they produced no manifesto they were unified as pilgrims moving toward the same destination while taking different paths
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Elie, Paul
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Merton, Thomas
- Day, Dorothy
- Percy, Walker
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Day, Dorothy
- Merton, Thomas
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Percy, Walker
- American literature
- Christianity and literature
- American literature
- Authors, American
- Catholics
- Catholics
- Catholics in literature
- American literature
- American literature
- Authors, American
- Catholics
- Catholics in literature
- Catholics
- Christianity and literature
- United States
- Label
- The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage, Paul Elie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-534) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- 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
- ocm51046749
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 554 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374529215
- Lccn
- 2002192522
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage, Paul Elie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-534) 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
- ocm51046749
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 554 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374529215
- Lccn
- 2002192522
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Catholic authors
- American literature -- Catholic authors | History and criticism
- Authors, American
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Catholics
- Catholics -- Intellectual life
- Catholics -- United States -- Biography
- Catholics -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Catholics in literature
- Catholics in literature
- Christianity and literature
- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
- History
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
- O'Connor, Flannery
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
- United States
- Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- American literature
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