University of Virginia Press (2004)
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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.
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Keywords | Solitude Solitude Religious aspects Autobiography Religious aspects |
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Call number | BJ1499.S65.B37 2004 |
ISBN(s) | 0813922887 0813922895 9780813922898 3540055428 9780813922881 |
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