The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography
University of Virginia Press (2004)
| Abstract | Christian solitude -- Bounded solitude in Augustine's Confessions -- The humanist tradition : Petrarch, Montaigne, and Gibbon -- Rousseau's myth of solitude in reveries of the solitary walker -- Thoreau at Walden : soliloquizing and talking to all the universe at the same time -- Twentieth-century varieties of solitary experience -- Thomas Merton and solitude : the door to solitude opens only from the inside -- Solitude, writing, and fathers in Paul Auster's The invention of solitude -- Conclusion: The value of solitude. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Solitude Solitude Religious aspects Autobiography Religious aspects | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ1499.S65.B37 2004 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0813922887 0813922895 9780813922898 | |||||||||
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