简介
Reflecting on her own reading life, Nancy Malone examines the role that reading plays is how we define ourselves. Throughout, she likens the experience of reading to walking a labyrinth, itself a metaphor for our spiritual journey through life. The paths within the labyrinth are not straight, but winding, and in the end, it is not the small circle in the center that defines the self, but the whole grand design of the labyrinth-every experience, every person we meet, and every book we read-that makes us who we are. Malone draws from diverse sources, both spiritual and secular-Augustine, George Herbert, George Eliot, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Paul Tillich, Elie Wiesel, James Agee, E.E. Cummings, Tom Wolfe, Patrick O'Brien, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood and Sue Grafton, to name a few. The author's analysis of influential books covers a broad range of subjects, including childhood reading; books as sacred objects; reading and social responsibility; "dangerous" reading, that challenges us to examine our prejudices and beliefs; poetry; and erotic literature. The book includes a bibliography to inspire readers to seek out the unfamiliar or return to old favorites. In Walking a literary labyrinth, Malone invites readers of all religious traditions, or none, to consider the influence of reading in their own lives.
目录
Prologue p. 1
The ABCs of the Self: First Steps to Interiority p. 7
Reflection: Take and Eat: The Act of Reading p. 31
"Take and Read" A Turning Point p. 37
Reflection: Sacramentality: The Book and the World p. 49
"Not by Bread Alone" Spiritual Reading in a Literary Desert p. 55
Reflection: Pilgrims and Monks: Reading and Praying p. 72
The Circle Widens: Theology as Spiritual Reading? p. 79
Reflection: Pleasure: Wasting Time for the Sake of God p. 91
Recovering the Self: Stories: Fact and Fiction p. 101
Reflection: The Grammar of the Spirit p. 120
Alone at the Center? Intimacy in Reading and Prayer p. 125
Reflection: Poetry: A Deeper Intimacy p. 138
Our Bodies, Our Selves: The Erotic in Spirituality and in Literature p. 149
A Literary Contemplatio ad Amorem: Imagination: Faith, Hope, and Love p. 163
Epilogue: "Give Beauty Back": An Apologia p. 179
Recommended Reading p. 183
Fiction p. 184
Short Pieces That Have Made Me Laugh p. 190
Nonfiction p. 190
Biography and Autobiography p. 193
Spiritual Reading and Theology p. 195
For the Theologically Minded p. 197
Index p. 199
The ABCs of the Self: First Steps to Interiority p. 7
Reflection: Take and Eat: The Act of Reading p. 31
"Take and Read" A Turning Point p. 37
Reflection: Sacramentality: The Book and the World p. 49
"Not by Bread Alone" Spiritual Reading in a Literary Desert p. 55
Reflection: Pilgrims and Monks: Reading and Praying p. 72
The Circle Widens: Theology as Spiritual Reading? p. 79
Reflection: Pleasure: Wasting Time for the Sake of God p. 91
Recovering the Self: Stories: Fact and Fiction p. 101
Reflection: The Grammar of the Spirit p. 120
Alone at the Center? Intimacy in Reading and Prayer p. 125
Reflection: Poetry: A Deeper Intimacy p. 138
Our Bodies, Our Selves: The Erotic in Spirituality and in Literature p. 149
A Literary Contemplatio ad Amorem: Imagination: Faith, Hope, and Love p. 163
Epilogue: "Give Beauty Back": An Apologia p. 179
Recommended Reading p. 183
Fiction p. 184
Short Pieces That Have Made Me Laugh p. 190
Nonfiction p. 190
Biography and Autobiography p. 193
Spiritual Reading and Theology p. 195
For the Theologically Minded p. 197
Index p. 199
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