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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAn address delivered on the occasion of the Archbishop receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Oh, it was the loneliness none of them could ever forget, that wry...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA long-time faculty member of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Marilynne Robinson has been recognized widely and consistently for the quality of her fiction: Housekeeping (1980) won the Hemingway/PEN award and was a finalist...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn her interrelated novels Gilead (2004) and Home (2008), Marilynne Robinson portrays American racism in a surprising and subtle way. Apart from Jack Boughton's African American wife and son, Della and Robert Miles,...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMarilynne Robinson's novels Gilead and Home answer one question about the character Jack Boughton--why he has returned to his home town after twenty years away--by revealing his secret at the end of each book: he has a...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMarilynne Robinson's novel Gilead is a rich study of the need for forgiveness and the power of grace. It can also be called, in Rebecca M. Painter's words, a "novelized treatise on the difficulty of lived virtue" (95)....
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From:Claremont Review of Books (Vol. 9, Issue 4)Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pages, $23 (cloth), $14 (paper) Home, by Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Grioux, 336 pages, $25 (cloth), $14 (paper) MARILYNNE ROBINSON IS AN...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. In this article, I explore the question of faith and doubt in Marilynne Robinson's acclaimed Gilead tetralogy: Gilead (2004), Home (2008), Lila (2014), and Jack (2020). While the central characters serve as...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMost readers agree that Marilynne Robinson's Gilead is a remarkable achievement. The book is beautifully written and compelling as a text--it works on its own terms. Nevertheless, the novel's success beyond its pages,...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt avails not, time nor place--distance avails not. --Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" The Rev. John Ames knows he is dying. His challenge is to record his memories so that his young son can "know his...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In Marilynne Robinson's Home, though Jack revisits his childhood place, he is unable to find a sense of being at home. Using Martin Heidegger's theory of 'being' and 'dwelling', this article analyses the...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWritten in the form of a spiraling letter with qualities of a sermon, a meditation, a diary, and a journal, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead offers a reflection of both lamentation and celebration but ends with a hope for a...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMarilynne Robinson argues that the literary text and "the reader's subjectivity ... are disparaged" today, under the pressures of secularization and post-modern cultural forms. Popular science texts, for example, often...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo be sure, there's plenty of irony in Marilynne Robinson's second novel. The narrator, an aging minister, needs his prodigal godson to help him come to peace with his impending death. Atheist philosopher Ludwig...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMy intention, my hope, is to revive interest in Jean Cauvin, the sixteenth-century French humanist and theologian--he died in 1564, the year Shakespeare was born--known to us by the name John Calvin. If I had been...
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From:Connotations (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe centre of gravity of philosophy must therefore alter its place. The earth of things, long thrown into shadow by the glories of the upper ether, must resume its rights. To shift the emphasis in this way means that...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn her collection of essays, The Death of Adam, Marilynne Robinson compares the "great project" of theology to art, noting that theology as "the brilliant conceptual architecture of western religious passion, entirely...
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From:Contemporary Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Marilynne Robinson's novel 'Housekeeping' the space of the house and the feminine subjectivity of the protagonists are mutually constructive. Robinson has a transient and settled model of subjectivity which are...
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From: Critique[(essay date winter 1989) In the following essay, Mallon explores the significance of the biblical allusions in Housekeeping, asserting that the novel utilizes homelessness as a metaphor for transcendence.] When...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough critics echo Marilynne Robinson's own preferences in highlighting similarities between her work and nineteenth-century American literature, doing so undercuts her attempts to revive contemporary public...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date summer 2007) In the following essay, Tanner analyzes John Ames, the protagonist of Gilead, and his experience with death.] In the final weeks of his life, John Ames, the elderly and critically ill...