Cynthia R. Wallace

The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil

Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of Simone Weil's most dedicated-and at points surprising-literary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found her thought and life so resonant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231214186
• ISBN-10: 0231214189
• Artikelnr.: 70141457

Autorenporträt

Cynthia R. Wallace is associate professor of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, and author of Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering (Columbia, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Force: Weil as Source for Adrienne Rich's Expanding Solidarities
2. Attention: Annie Dillard Waits for God with Weil
3. Hunger: Weil's Fraught Sacrifice in Mary Gordon's Fiction
4. (De)creation: Simone Weil Among the Poets
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited