Wayfaring : Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant

by Jacobs, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780802865687
• ISBN10: 0802865682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-28
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

A superb Stylist with incisive Insight, Alan Jacobs is especially fond of the essay as a writing form, and in this volume he offers eighteen beautifully written pieces reflecting on the Christian journey. Through these wayfaring essays both serious and comic, eloquent and intriguing - including one piece in the form of a wickedly witty poem - Jacobs muses on the usefulness and dangers of blogging, the art of dictionary making, the world of Harry Potter, the life of trees, and much more. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Alan Jacobs is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College, Illinois. His other books include Original Sin: A Cultural History and The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Worlds of Reading
Sentences	p. 3
A Commonplace Book	p. 7
Robert Alter's Fidelity	p. 12
A Religion for Atheists	p. 23
Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges	p. 27
On the Recent Publication of Kahlil Gibran's Collected Works	p. 40
The Poet's Prose	p. 47
The Brightest Heaven of Invention	p. 55
Opportunity Costs	p. 61
The Youngest Brother's Tale	p. 71
Signs and Wonders
Reading the Signs	p. 83
The Secret Garden	p. 90
The Life of Trees	p. 100
Gardening and Governing	p. 112
Blessed Are the Green of Heart	p. 119
The End of Friendship	p. 128
Do-It-Yourself Tradition	p. 137
Choose Life	p. 148
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