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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Playful wisdom
    sub title: reimagining the sacred in American literature, from Walden to Gilead
  name:
    name part: Davis, Robert Leigh
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "This book examines play and religion in American literature, exploring a unique kind of modern piety that arises not based on fixed doctrines or ecclesiastical structures, but on a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly adapts to new perspectives and revises fixed assumptions in the light of new experiences"--
  table of contents: Introduction: This is play -- Play and attunement : the spirituality of Walden -- Play and possibility : Emily Dickinson's theology of perhaps -- Play and improvisation : Jack Kerouac's singing theology -- Play and nonsense : Thomas Merton's last poem -- Play and risk : Annie Dillard's daredevil faith -- Play and understanding : Marilynne Robinson's religious hermeneutics.
  note: Robert Leigh Davis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Play in literature
  subject:
    topic: Piety in literature
  subject:
    topic: Faith in literature
  subject:
    topic: Religion in literature
  subject:
    topic: American literature
  subject:
    topic: Faith in literature
  subject:
    topic: Piety in literature
  subject:
    topic: Play in literature
  subject:
    topic: Religion in literature
  classification: PS169.P55 D38 2020
  classification: 810.9/382
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Playful wisdom
    name:
      name part: Davis, Robert Leigh, 1956-
    origin info:
      publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]
    identifier: (DLC) 2020032672
  identifier: 9781793626288
  identifier: 1793626286
  identifier: 9781793626295
  identifier: 2020032671
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200722
    record change date: 20250318223259.2
    record identifier: in00004282600
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng