A Stay Against Confusion,9780060196660

A Stay Against Confusion

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ISBN13: 9780060196660
ISBN10: 0060196661
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-03-15
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

In the tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Andre Dubus, A Stay of Confusion explores the role that religious belief and literature play in one writer's life. All creative writing is, in the words of Robert Frost, "a stay against confusion". It tries to find a harmony and order that we only fleetingly detect beneath the chaos of everyday life. Religion has also functioned in this way for Ron Hansen, and it shares with literature a reverence for mystery and for using metaphor to communicate a supernatural order that we will never fully perceive or comprehend.

Here, Hansen talks about his novels, his childhood and family, and about mentors like John Gardner and John Irving. He explores prayer, stigmata, martyrdom, and the Eucharist. A surprisingly intimate book, A Stay Against Confusion brings together the literary and religious impulses that inform the life of one of our most gifted writers of fiction.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Stay Against Confusion xi
Writing as Sacrament
1(14)
Faith and Fiction
15(14)
What Stories Are and Why We Read Them
29(20)
A Nineteenth-Century Man
49(8)
The Wizard: Remembering John Gardner
57(16)
The Pilgrim: Saint Ignatius of Loyola
73(32)
The Story of Cain
105(10)
Affliction and Grace: Religious Experience in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
115(20)
Leo Tolstoy's ``Master and Man''
135(8)
Babette's Feast
143(20)
``Anima Christi''
163(14)
Stigmata
177(16)
Hearing The Cry of the Poor: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador
193(36)
Eucharist
229(34)
Works Cited
263

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