Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping: A Collection of Critical Essays
About This Book
1 William M. Burke, “Border Crossings in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping” In the first selection, entitled “Border Crossings in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping,” William M. Burke describes the novel as “an unconventional primer on the mystical life, in which the basic accomplishment for both the protagonist, Ruth, and the reader is the expansion of consciousness through a series of border crossings –social, geographic, and perceptual.” Burke examines two competing impulses in the Foster fami
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | Biography, Literature and Literary studies |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 4 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 1 William M. Burke, “Border Crossings in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping”
- 6 Maggie Galehouse, “Their Own Private Idaho: Transience in Marilynne Robinson’s
- 7 Laura Barrett, “‘The Ungraspable Phantom of Life’: Incompletion and Abjection
- 8 Paul Tyndall and Fred Ribkoff, “Loss, Longing and the Optative Mode in Marilyn