The value of solitude : the ethics and spirituality of aloneness in autobiography / John D. Barbour.
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TextSeries: Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)Publication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004Description: 237 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0813922887 (alk. paper)
- 0813922895 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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- BJ1499.S65Â B37 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index.
Christian solitude -- Bounded solitude in Augustine's Confessions -- The humanist tradition : Petrarch, Montaigne, and Gibbon -- Rousseau's myth of solitude in reveries of the solitary walker -- Thoreau at Walden : soliloquizing and talking to all the universe at the same time -- Twentieth-century varieties of solitary experience -- Thomas Merton and solitude : the door to solitude opens only from the inside -- Solitude, writing, and fathers in Paul Auster's The invention of solitude -- Conclusion: The value of solitude.
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