Spirituality and the Writer: A Personal Inquiry

In a book-length essay on the evolving, improvisatory world of spiritual literature, Thomas Larson surveys authors old and new who have shaped religious autobiography and spiritual memoir. He shows just how the writer's craft must prevail to capture the fleeting and personal truths of the spirit in an important addition to nonfiction craft studies.

About the author

Thomas Larson is a critic, memoirist, essayist, and the author of numerous books, including The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease, The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," and two Swallow Press titles: The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative and Spirituality and the Writer: A Personal Inquiry.

Summary

In a book-length essay on the evolving, improvisatory world of spiritual literature, Thomas Larson surveys authors old and new who have shaped religious autobiography and spiritual memoir. He shows just how the writer’s craft must prevail to capture the fleeting and personal truths of the spirit in an important addition to nonfiction craft studies.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Larson
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2019
• EAN: 9780804012126
• ISBN: 978-0-8040-1212-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works