The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton [1 ed.] 9780268092887, 9780268017866

From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor R

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The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton [1 ed.]
9780268092887, 9780268017866

In this fourth volume of correspondence, readers discover "the literary Merton," who had a passion for writing

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Thomas Merton spent two weeks in Alaska in 1968 just prior to his fateful trip to the East. He had no thought of publica

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La compiuta vicenda del sociologo americano Robert King Merton - nome originale Meyer Robert Schkolnick, Philadelphia, P

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In 1969, one year after Thomas Merton's tragic (and suspicious) death, John Howard Griffin was invited to write a b

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Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, comtemplat

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This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishi

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Seldom can one predict that a book will have an effect on history, but this is such a work. Merton's many biographe

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Opening with Merton's twenty-nine-year correspondence with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren, this boo

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This book reintroduces the work of Robert K. Merton as a bridge between classical sociology and modern sociology. Founde

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Offers a comprehensive perspective on knowledge production in the field of sociology. Moreover, it is a tribute to the s

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