Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer
Edited by Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio
Few contemporary American writers have stirred the minds and emotions of their readers as Philip Roth has done. Even fewer writers have excelled in various forms of the comic as Roth has for over a half-century. Playful and Serious assembles a group of outstanding Roth scholars and critics who focus their attention on the different ways Roth brings his comic tendencies to bear on essentially serious topics.
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Searching for God in the Sixties
by David R. Williams
This paradigm-breaking book by Baby Boomer David R. Williams dares to rethink the whole of the '60s experience, not from a political or sociological but from an historical/theological perspective. The book's chapters each correspond to a line in Emily Dickinson's poem "Finding is the first act." The parallel to Dickinson's experience in the psychic wilderness demonstrates just how much the experience of the '60s was part of an ongoing American story not an aberration.
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George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton
Edited by Christopher Hodgkins
The fourteen essays in this collection address Herbert's pastoral poetry and practice, cast new light on his actual relations with specific local personalities and places, make fresh connections to the inward biblical and liturgical spaces of his work, consider his outward links to garden and pasture, and discover fictional and theological reverberations beyond Herbert's local, pastoral world.
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