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The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

By: Fr Joseph J Feeney

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The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

By: Fr Joseph J Feeney

Renowned Hopkins expert Joseph J. Feeney, SJ, offers a fresh take on Gerard Manley Hopkins which shakes our understanding of his poetry and his life and points towards the next phase in Hopkins studies. While affirming the received view of Hopkins as a major poet of nature, religion, and psychology, Feeney finds a pervasive, rarely noticed playfulness by employing both the theory of play and close reading of his texts. This new Hopkins lived a playful life from childhood till death as a student who loved puns and jokes and wrote parodies, comic verse, and satires; as a Jesuit who played and organized games and had "a gift for mimicry;" and most significantly, as a poet and prose stylist who rewards readers with unexpected displays of whimsy and incongruity, even, strikingly, in "The Wreck of the Deutschland," "The Windhover," and the "Terrible Sonnets." Feeney convincingly argues that Hopkins's distinctive playfulness is inextricably bound to his sense of fun, his creativity, his style, and his competitiveness with other poets. In unexpected images, quirky metaphors, strange perspectives, puns, coinages, twisted syntax, wordmusic, and sprung rhythm, we see his playful streak burst forth to adorn those works critics consider his most brilliant. No one who absorbs this book's radical readings will ever see and hear Hopkins's poetry and prose quite the way they used to.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409474933

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9781409474937

Laying the Foundation: A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and Fundamental Theology

By: Fr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, S.T.D.

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Laying the Foundation: A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and Fundamental Theology

By: Fr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, S.T.D.

Laying the Foundation: A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and Fundamental Theology is a classic text by the late Fr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, a highly respected author, professor, and theologian of the twentieth century. “This book appeared in 1942 under the rather unimposing title We Stand with Christ: an Essay in Catholic Apologetics. It should have become a classic. It is, I believe, the greatest work of apologetics produced in a time of superstar apologists such as F. J. Sheed, Ronald Knox, and Fulton Sheen. It represents the high point of apologetics as well as a gold standard for subsequent works of fundamental theology.”—from the foreword by Scott Hahn, Franciscan University of Steubenville.

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Emmaus Road Publishing

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1941447694

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9781941447697

The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

By: Fr Joseph J Feeney

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The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Laying the Foundation: A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and Fundamental Theology

Laying the Foundation: A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and Fundamental Theology

The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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