Women of the catholic imagination book

Both Donna Tartt and Toni Morrison are discussed in this so I am interested 9781685780968 Great Catholic authors are those who are not out to proselytize but instead to tell a good story I m always looking for new authors and so I appreciated the chapters on new to me writers like Alice McDermott and Donna Tartt But even so I appreciated the inclusion of dear literary friends Sigrid Unset Rumor Godden Muriel Spark and my beloved bohemian cranky favorite Alice Thomas Ellis Every one of these talented authors deserves a much wider readership 9781685780968 A difficult intellectual read about Catholic women writers I learned new facts about some of these women and learned of other Catholic women writers I never heard of 9781685780968 Excellent The moment I saw this book on Haley Stewart s Instagram I knew I wanted to read it My intuition did not lead me astray The conclusion alone is worth the price of the book There are twelve female Catholic authors featured in this book and I had only heard of seven of them I enjoyed hearing from the men and women who wrote each of the articles too I had heard of some of the contributors but not all Here are the Catholic writers featured in this book Josephine Ward Sigrid Undset Caryll Houselander Gertrud von le Fort Flannery O Connor Caroline Gordon Rumer Godden Alice Thomas Ellis Muriel Spark Toni Morrison Alice McDermott and Donna Tartt The essays were all well written and explored briefly the novelist s life her Catholic faith her body of work in brief and often one of two works in detail and the integration of the novelist s faith and writing There is quite a range of life experience novelistic style etc. Women of the catholic imagination book When I first started the book I went right to the essay about Rumer Godden only to find that I ve only read one novel In This House of Brede that is a explicitly Catholic novel for Godden whose work is astonishingly varied I would also contend that Godden s novel An Episode of Sparrows is Catholic too Regardless there is something about Godden s life and writing that I find very compelling so I loved this essay in particular My other favorites were about Josephine Ward her British context in the late Victorian era into the 20th century makes her feel familiar and Alice McDermott but I now have a reading list that has expanded considerably The conclusion is written by novelist Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera who wrote The Awakening of Miss Prim which I now want to re read I underlined half of it She writes The mission of the Catholic writer is not as most contemporary literature suggests to look inside focusing on oneself but rather to pay attention to what is outside of oneself gazing at the symbols with which God adorns the world 180 I loved this too If the ancient Greeks depict the poet as a blind prophet the Christian poet touched by grace is the blind person who opens up his eyes and begins to see 183 These are some of the profound ideas woven through all the essays and all the work of these varied and faithful novelists Art is sacramental and to receive it is divine gift 9781685780968

Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know By Haley Stewart

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There is no lack of talented women in the Catholic literary tradition Yet these brilliant writers are often unfamiliar to today s readers or if widely read their Catholic identity is unrecognized This collection introduces a dozen Catholic women novelists from the past two hundred years presenting their fascinating lives spiritual biographies and sacramental vision in essays by twelve Catholic scholars and writers Edited by Haley Stewart and with a conclusion by best selling author Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera Women of the Catholic Imagination encourages the expansion of the Catholic literary canon by bringing these inspired writers back into the spotlight laying the foundation for the reader s discovery or rediscovery of their masterful works Women of the Catholic Imagination Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know.

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