Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life / Kathleen Norris.
2008
BT732.4 .N67 2008 (Mapit)
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Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life / Kathleen Norris.
Author
Norris, Kathleen, 1947-
ISBN
9781594489969
1594489963
1594489963
Imprint
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.
Language
English
Description
334 p. ; 24 cm.
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BT732.4 .N67 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.5403 B
Summary
Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334).
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Table of Contents
Somewhere
Tedium
From eight bad thoughts to seven sins
Psyche, soul, and muse
Up and down
Give me a word
Acedia's progress
Acedia's decline
A silent despair
The quotidian mysteries
The "noon" of midlife
Day by day
And to the end arriving
A widow's uneasy afterword
Acedia: a commonplace book.
Tedium
From eight bad thoughts to seven sins
Psyche, soul, and muse
Up and down
Give me a word
Acedia's progress
Acedia's decline
A silent despair
The quotidian mysteries
The "noon" of midlife
Day by day
And to the end arriving
A widow's uneasy afterword
Acedia: a commonplace book.